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Introducing Google’s Knowledge Graph – Things, Not Strings
Google is telling us how we will learn in the future. It’s pretty much that simple. Google’s Blog post on May 16 – Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings – announced that it is developing a new search tool. … Continue reading
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Many 21st Century Library Directors Are NOT Librarians
That headline snapped into my brain yesterday when I read that The new head of Ottawa’s library is not a librarian, Danielle McDonald took over the Ottawa [Canada] Public Library and its $50-million budget this week. She’s a departure from … Continue reading
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Our Future is Not Uncertain – It’s Ambiguous
In January 2012 Robert Safian posted an eye-opening article for FAST COMPANY titled “This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier of Business“. When I recently read it, it resonated with me because it so … Continue reading
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The High Performing Library
The majority of libraries are not excellent libraries in terms of being able to exceed all standards, all employees having a positive attitude, providing excellent services, being customer focused, being an integral part of the community, and achieving their full … Continue reading
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21st Century Library Strategy – Change!
Last week during the Edgy Librarian webinar there were some excellent topics discussed. Lybrarian Blog has a nice review of some of it, with more to follow. One session that I listened to that peaked my interest was the “Culture … Continue reading
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21st Century Library Strategic Management
In my Strategic Planning series of posts in the fall of 2010, I stated that the Strategic Plan was essential to the survival of a 21st Century Library. That series was fairly comprehensive in addressing the Strategic Planning model that … Continue reading
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Two Years of Blogging
Today marks the beginning of year three of my blogging adventure. The past two years have been an adventurous, bewildering, challenging, discouraging, encouraging, enlightening, exciting, exasperating, frustrating, and satisfying experience (don’t worry I wasn’t planning an alphabetical listing of emotions). … Continue reading
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Sure-Fire, Can’t-Fail Way to Prove Your Library’s Relevance
There are few things more important in the librarian profession today than proving to the funders that the library is relevant and valuable to the community. You can better prove that by using more than “count” numbers – circulation count, … Continue reading
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Now More Than Ever – 7 Imperatives for Library Leadership
(in the 21st Century) Now seems like an excellent time to highlight and re-emphasize 21st Century Library – “Rebooted” Into Relevance that highlighted an exceptionally thought provoking article by Scott Corwin, Elisabeth Hartley & Harry Hawkes – “The Library Rebooted” … Continue reading
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21st Century Library Organization
For many decades SLIS have been teaching that the library organization is a basic form-follows-function, hierarchy style organization. One director supervises an appropriate number of assistant directors, depending on the size of the organization, or function managers, who oversee the … Continue reading
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