Interesting how much we can learn from each other. Some cultures are so much stronger in sharing, mentoring, and cultivating learning in others. SLA (Special Libraries Association) , an international organization of…
SLA Presidential Candidates: Web Convo
Thanks to SLA Toronto Chapter for hosting a web conversation for all of you with Kate Arnold and Juanita Richardson, candidates for SLA President-Elect on June 12th @ 3:30 p.m.…
Juanita Richardson: Q&A’s for SLA President Candidate
Juanita Richardson, new associate to Dysart & Jones Associates, is candidate for SLA Presidency. Kudos to SLA for running q & a’s to help the membership get to know more…
Leadership Development Through Professional Associations
I recently met Graham Lavender, a recent MLIS graduate seeking employment in the GTA. Many colleagues ask me “what’s the caliber of the new grads?” My response? “Awesome.” These new grads are…
“Traditional” Career? What’s That?
Juanita is a candidate for the SLA Presidency. The candidates responding to questions that will better acquaint the membership with the candidate’s perspectives and opinions. SLA: Question: What sort of advice…
SLA: What’s Love Got To Do With It?
At the recent SLA Leadership Summit, James Kane – considered to be the world’s foremost expert on what makes an individual truly “loyal” to a product, brand or, in this…
Curious Enough to Question “Orthodoxies”
This blog post is being posted to Future Ready 365 today. Are you a future ready information professional? A few weeks ago Jane Dysart, Kim Silk and I were fortunate…
Innovations bring promise & peril
Fantastic SLA PH&T Division conference at the Hilton Bonnet Creek in Orlando, began with Kevin Davies, Chief Editor Bio-IT World and author of The $1,000 Genome (Free Press 2010). He’s…
The Corporate Library
Isn’t it interesting that as the Special Libraries Association, a 11,000+ member organization representing corporate, government, industry, medical, hospital, and legal libraries as well as other specialized libraries residing in…
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…