It is important to help those who use our libraries.  It is also important to help those who work in our libraries.  And finally, it is important to nurture a culture where library staff help each other.

And here’s a post to help you do just that:  IDEO’s Culture of Helping.  Here are some of the reasons you will want to read it:

• Few things leaders can do are more important than encouraging helping behavior within their organizations.
• Helpfulness must be actively nurtured in organizations, however, because it does not arise automatically among colleagues.