Survival Guide for New Managers from the Education Institute Speakers: Rebecca Jones, Dysart & Jones Associates and Ruth Snowden, J. Chevreau Enterprises Inc. The move into management brings a host of new responsibilities, hopes, challenges and opportunities. Whether you are in a small library or a huge organization, the management skills and strategies are the [...]
Check out the new conference program for the Canadian Library Association. Two new tracks, one on technology and one on leadership. Join Rebecca and I, CLA President Stephen Abram, and lots of great speakers like: Gary Price of ResourceShelf.com, Barbara Fullerton, Aaron Schmidt, Darlene Fichter, Randy Reichardt of The Pod Bay Door blog, Steven Cohen [...]
Strategic Conversations with Leaders Series from the Education InstituteInnovation Ideas & InsightsInstructor: Wendy Beecham, Chair, TEC International & Executive Coach.WHENWednesday, March 2, 2005 3:00- 4:00 p.m. Eastern time (12noon Pacific Time)TELECONFERENCE — You don’t have to leave your office!! Description of Wendy’s talk:Gary Hamel in his famous book “Leading the Revolution” ? states that innovation [...]
Leadership skills are critical for very profession, but especially for information professionals who very much need to be “at the table” or “in the game” in their organizations. In order to be indispensable to an organization or a community, information professionals have to have a deep understanding of their audience so that products and services [...]
Last night I moderated an SLA Toronto meeting focused on information technology trends with a a great panel: Stephen Abram from Sirsi, Maria Phipps from ME Phipps & Associates, Michael Aprieto from OCLC Canada, Vicki Whitmell, Legislative Library of Ontario, and Greg Ponesse from Factiva. Lots of interesting discussions ensued. Challenges for info pros were [...]
Friday at Ontario Library Assocation Conference, Feb 4, Toronto Convention Centre: I had the great good luck of attending four insightful sessions with some top-notch speakers. In fact, I was very impressed overall with the quality of the presentations as well as the quality of the interaction between the speakers and the audience and amongst [...]
Gosh darn technology….. it’s great to have friends like Steven Cohen, Library Stuff.net, who help fix your RSS feeds Thanks! And thanks for Daniel for letting me know it wasn’t working!
What a fantastic beginning! Although it seemed so dreadful trudging in to a conference room at 8:00 a.m. on Thurs Feb 3 for a plenary, that dread soon dissipated. Within minutes, Craig Kielburger, founder of Free the Children had a room of sluggish librarians laughing, singing, pumping their arms and crying. Now 21, Craig and [...]
We’ve just attended our first conference of the year — the Ontario Library Association Super Conference at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Met lots of friends, colleagues and clients — Clifford Lynch, Jenny Levine, Gary Price, Darlene Fichter, Stephen Abram, and lots of others! Coming up soon is Information Today’s Computers in Libraries 2005 in [...]
Marriage was a metaphor used repeatedly at the recent two day Education Institute Leadership Summit “Building Capacity through Partnership and Collaboration” — itself a partnership of OLA, LAA, BCLA and SLA. Over 90 delegates representing a cross-section of the information industry from across the country laughed, argued, listened, discussed and learned along with Ken Roberts, [...]