SLA excerpted a chapter from Intranets for Info Pros (a book edited by Mary Lee Kenndey and me, Jane Dysart) in it’s most recent issue, Jan 08, of Information Outlook. Check it out! Here’s SLA’s description of the article:Information professionals with intranet-based responsibilities are interested in knowing what work is emerging in the marketplace, what [...]
Friend, colleague, mentor, and overall brilliant guy, Stephen Abram is now Presdient of the SLA, a 12,000 international member organization, and his agenda: “Innovate in 2008″. Stephen always has great ideas and has mobilized a terrific group of volunteers to work with him in many areas — learning, impacting, communicating, and more. We look forward [...]
As always I love Google’s art. And don’t you feel old knowing Lego is 50??
Information Today’s 23rd annual CIL conference will take place at the Crystal City Hyatt, April 7-9. Check out the program online and visit the conference wiki. New this year on the CIL site is a list of speakers with some background info on each of them and the session/s in which they are speaking. Cool, [...]
How could I forget? A great source for academic libraries on organizational transformations is University of Arizona Libraries’ Living the Future Living the Future 7 is April 30 – May 2.
I’m talking with a group through the Education Institute tomorrow on “Organization 2.0“ (really just a catchy title for organizational design that supports collaborative technologies and working approaches). For those interested in shaping your organization to underpin your strategies (which IS what an org chart is supposed to do…), these are some good starting sources. [...]
If you haven’t already, subscribe to Libvibe to listen to Marv Kaminsky’s 8 minute broadcasts of news for those of us involved with libraries. Being rather ADD, I really value libvibe since I can listen to Marv while scanning something else. Today’s broadcast is especially great to start off the new year with: he interviews [...]