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Searcher
August 2002
Cynthia L. Shamel |
Building a Brand: Got Librarian? Librarians need to do a better job of getting their message out (and conveying a sense of their usefulness) to the business community at large.   |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2015
Sam Searle |
Using Scenarios in Introductory Research Data Management Workshops for Library Staff This case study describes the inclusion of a scenario-based group learning activity in introductory research data management workshops for librarians at two Australian universities |
Searcher
August 2002
Carol Tenopir |
Educating Tomorrow's Information Professionals Today It is a great time to enter the information professions, but one that poses challenges for LIS schools and employers, as a new generation of information professionals comes on the scene and prepares to tackle jobs in a variety of environments. |
D-Lib
September 2006
Choi & Rasmussen |
What Is Needed to Educate Future Digital Librarians: A Study of Current Practice and Staffing Patterns in Academic and Research Libraries Digital libraries are the future of academic and research institutions, and digital professionals will be required to have more breadth and depth of knowledge and skills across the dimensions of traditional library knowledge, technology, and human relations. |
Searcher
September 2008
Stephen Abram |
Evolution to Revolution to Chaos? Reference in Transition Those of us who prepare for an emerging new world balance of personal service -- virtual, in-person, and computer-mediated -- will be better prepared than those who wait and see. It's a new Renaissance in libraries. |
ONLINE
Nov/Dec 2003
George R. Plosker |
The Information Industry Revolution: Implications for Librarians Does the word "library" adequately convey the utility and value of what librarians, and in this case, corporate or special librarians, contribute to their organizations? |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2012
Glenn G. Kautt |
Strong Leadership Plan Helps Identify the Right Successors A strong leadership plan will not only help you identify the right successors, it is also the centerpiece of any successful transition. |
Searcher
August 2002
Mary-Ellen Mort |
The Info Pro's Survival Guide to Job Hunting An effective online job search strategy you can adapt to your own career focus and industry target. |
Searcher
August 2002
Rebecca T. Lenzini |
The Graying of the Library Profession A survey of our professional association and their responses. |
Searcher
March 2011
Matarazzo & Pearlstein |
Survival Lessons for Libraries: Educating Special Librarians -- "The Past Is Prologue" When we began writing this series of articles addressing survival lessons for special libraries, we had more questions than answers; this is still the case. |
CIO
December 21, 2012
Anita Bruzzese |
How IT Pros Can Improve Their Interpersonal Skills IT professionals can improve their ability to communicate with business colleagues by participating in interdepartmental meetings, moving into business units and joining Toastmasters. |
D-Lib
November 2001
Jola G.B. Prinsen |
A Challenging Future Awaits Libraries Able to Change Highlights of the International Summer School on the Digital Library... |
D-Lib
December 2001 |
Clips & Pointers The Evidence in Hand: Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections... Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits... Hybrid Electronic Access and Delivery in the Library Networked Environment... Resources for Professional Education & Grant Writing... etc. |
D-Lib
September 2001 |
Clips and Pointers Building and Sustaining Digital Collections... Trust in Cyberspace... Selection and Presentation of Commercially Available Electronic Resources... Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository... Feasibility Study for a National Union Catalogue for the UK... etc. |
D-Lib
November 2001 |
Clips and Pointers Strategies for Building Digitized Collections... Digital Curation: Digital Archives, Libraries, and e-Science... Proceedings of the 2000 Sino-United States Symposium and Workshop on Library and Information Science Education in the Digital Age... etc. |
Searcher
December 2002
Amelia Kassel |
Value-Added Deliverables The need to add value to the deliverables from online searching continues to grow. During recent years, increasingly, information brokers prepare value-added deliverables for corporate information managers and librarians on a contractual or ad hoc, per-project basis. |
Searcher
September 2002
Barbara Quint |
The Eternal Watchdog What exactly will information professionals -- librarians or professional searchers or whatever you want to call us -- do in the future? What set of skills will we possess that will both identify us to our clients and earn us the big bucks? |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2011
Casarosa et al. |
Report on the Workshop "Linking Research and Education in Digital Libraries" The theme of this workshop was a review of the roles of information professionals, considering not only the impact brought by the advances in the technical dimension, but also other dimensions such as policy, quality, user profiles, and legal aspects. |
D-Lib
December 2007
Kaufman & Ubois |
Good Terms - Improving Commercial-Noncommercial Partnerships for Mass Digitization OCLC Programs and Research engaged Intelligent Television to study the partnership agreements between cultural institutions and for-profit companies for the mass digitization of books and other media. This report presents the findings of that study. |
Searcher
May 2010
Matarazzo & Pearlstein |
Survival Lessons for Libraries: Staying Afloat in Turbulent Waters -- News/Media Libraries Hit Hard A discussion of the events and circumstances affecting media organizations and their libraries under difficult economic conditions. |
D-Lib
April 2002 |
Clips and Pointers Collection Description Focus/CIMI: Summary Report... LITA Top Tech Trends... Digital Reference Services Bibliography... Calls for Participation... Usability for Digital Libraries... etc. |
Information Today
January 2001 |
What's Ahead for 2001? Information Today has asked a group of information industry movers and shakers about the present state of the industry, as well as where they think it's going. The contributions below range from the serious to the not-so, but we're sure you'll find them all thought-provoking... |
Job Journal
October 7, 2012 |
In a Tough Job Market, Soft Skills are Essential The skills employers value go well beyond technical expertise or your college degree, and it can improve your competitiveness to point out the `soft skills' you'd bring to a job. These valuable traits and abilities deserve a mention if you can back it up. |
Information Today
June 10, 2002
Barbara Quint |
QuestionPoint Marks New Era in Virtual Reference QuestionPoint stems from an arrangement between the Library of Congress' Public Service Collections Directorate and OCLC to provide libraries with access to a growing collaborative network of reference librarians in the U.S. and around the world. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2013 |
In Brief and In the News Europeana releases first free iPad app... IMLS and Webjunction convening examines continuing education for library professionals... ALA Task Force releases digital literacy recommendations... |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2011 |
In Brief SEALS: Semantic Evaluation at Large Scale... Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award 2012... New library study: demand up for technology, budget cuts limit access... |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2011 |
In Brief and In the News RAPTOR: Understanding your users' use of e-resources... Science.gov Sports a New Image Search... Anianet and Springer Announce Cooperation to Promote Scholarly Collaboration... |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Mar/Apr 2014 |
A New Intro A wave of mergers and acquisitions among national and regional brands has consolidated the commercial real estate industry; a recession has emphasized the need for diversification of skills and services. |
Information Today
August 2000
Paula J. Hane |
IT Report from the Field: 21st National Online Meeting It's hard to believe that the National Online Meeting (NOM) celebrated its 21st year as one of the information industry's premier events |
Information Today
September 2000
Barbara Quint |
Qunit's Online: Recruiting a Corporate Dream Team The advantages of hiring a librarian and how to go about it. |
Searcher
December 2008
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - What Is the Question? It seems these days that article after article, commentary after commentary, even blog after blog keeps asking and answering questions on the future of libraries, librarians, and information professionals. |
D-Lib
October 2000 |
In Brief The Digital Performance Archive... Eprints.org Software for Creating Institutional and Individual Open Archives... SciELO - a Model for Cooperative Electronic Publishing in Developing Countries... Librarians agonize over which journals to cancel when library budgets can't keep up... etc. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2002
Terence Huwe |
Turbo-Powering the Flat Portal: The University of California's Labor Research Web Flat portals are ideal for libraries and information centers that don't want to get into the hardware business or get locked into a single product family. The challenge is to turbo-power them and link them to what searchers crave most: solid, reputable content... |
Information Today
October 24, 2011
Cindy Shamel |
Internet Librarian 2011--Considering the Possibilities Attendees at Internet Librarian 2011 came away with the challenge to unite over digital content management, to consider using play as a strategy to learn, and to stay abreast of the changes in technology critical to information professionals in all environments. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2009 |
In Brief Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Access to Learning Award... High precision and recall: Focuss.Info as community-driven search engine... Shared Shelf: partnership plans to launch networked image management platform... etc. |
Searcher
February 2006
David Grossman |
What's Next Much of the compilation, organization, management, and dissemination of information is currently happening outside the walls of the traditional library and that this phenomenon will continue to proliferate. |
Searcher
March 2001
Barbara Quint |
On Myths: A Letter to Non-Subscribers As for that misty mystical myth of some Golden Age of Libraries where all truth was handmade and hand delivered and all patrons were gratefully enriched by the blessed hands of librarians scattering largesse throughout the land...pull the other one, I'm starting to walk funny... |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2013
Glenn G. Kautt |
Teamwork: A Winning Combination Successful financial planning organizations almost always take a collaborative team approach, building on the complementary skills of members. |
D-Lib
February 2003 |
Clips and Pointers Intellectual Property on the Internet: A Survey of Issues... The Internet Under Crisis Conditions: Learning from September 11... Creating and Using Virtual Reality: a Guide for the Arts and Humanities... Digital Libraries... CD Forum Guidance Papers... etc. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2013 |
In Brief and In the News The Value and Impact of the British Atmospheric Data Center... Reports on the 8th International Digital Curation Conference... NISO Publishes Maintenance Revisions of Dublin Core and SUSHI Standards... |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2009
Pamela Rollo |
Disruption and Vision: Allies of Innovation In this Dickensian year, some information professionals are indeed finding a silver lining, deciding it is time to innovate, to take advantage of the rifts in the status quo, to leave old practices behind, and to improvise. |
Searcher
April 2012
Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us. |
D-Lib
July 2001 |
Clips and Pointers Report to the President on Digital Libraries: Universal Access to Human Knowledge... Report on the NISO Workshop on Networked Digital Reference Services... National Library of Australia Electronic Information Resources Strategies and Action Plan... etc. |
D-Lib
May 2003
James W. Marcum |
Visions: The Academic Library in 2012 The future of the academic library is a topic of continuing concern for the profession, but usually the boundaries of projected visions are set firmly in the issues of the day. What means might be found to break open those constraints and encourage visions projected further into the future? |
Financial Planning
December 1, 2011
Deena Katz |
Replacing Yourself Who's going to sit in your chair and meet with your clients when you're no longer doing it? That question leaves many advisors speechless. |
Information Today
January 2002 |
What's Ahead for 2002? We have asked a group of industry movers and shakers about the current state of the information industry, as well as where they think it's going... |
D-Lib
February 2008
Datema et al. |
In Brief Getting the most out of your institutional repository... Science assets of the digital age at risk... Linus Pauling and the International Peace Movement: a documentary history... etc. |
D-Lib
October 2007
Anna Gold |
Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part 2: Libraries and the Data Challenge: Roles and Actions for Libraries Once libraries and librarians have forged new partnerships with scientists and data managers, then they will be truly integral to the stewardship of data as a vital part of the scholarly record. |
Information Today
April 19, 2012 |
New Multimedia Tools Help Museums, Libraries Support 21st Century Skills The Institute of Museum and Library Services revamped the webpage for its Museums, Libraries, and 21 st Century Skills initiative. Museums and libraries visiting the page will now be able organize 21 st-century skills workshops in their communities. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2011
Diekema et al. |
Teaching Use of Digital Primary Sources for K-12 Settings This paper describes learning outcomes of a three-day workshop on integrating primary sources into K-12 teaching. |
