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Made to Last: Celebrating 100 years
It must have been a very interesting world in 1909. Here are three immediate (to me) organizations celebrating their centennials. The Special Libraries Association, an organization representing 12,000+ librarians with specialized collections and services in corporations (law firms, banks, pharmaceuticals, manufacturers, hospitals, ettc) around the work, celebrates their centennial this year. The Toronto chapter of [...]
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Twitter Trending & “Mesh09″
Unfortunately it has been a few years since I have been able to attend the Mesh conference in Toronto with key themes: conntect, share, inspire. I decided to check in with the conference via Twitter today and found it was a top trending Twitter topic, just as Computers in Libraries 2009 was last week! And [...]
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Think Strategically Not Tactically
Although this article was about enterprise infrastructure, the title “Slashed Budgets? Think Strategically, not Tactically” resonated with me. Rebecca and I work with many clients who have organizational and financial challenges. We have found that it definitely makes a difference to think strategically about what you want to have in terms of a service or [...]
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Net Initiatives for Tough Times: Digital Publishing, Preservation & Practices
The call for speakers for Internet Librarian 2009 is online with a theme, Net Initiatives for Tough Times: Digital Publishing, Preservation & Practices. AND, the opening keynote for the conference is Internet pioneer, Vint Cerf who is currently VP & Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. Most excitiing!
