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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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Amazon’s New Kindle Bringing Fire to the Tablet Market
Toughted by Amazon as delivering; Movies, apps, games, music, reading and more, plus Amazon’s revolutionary, cloud-accelerated web browser • 18 million movies, TV shows, songs, magazines, and books • Amazon Appstore – thousands of popular apps and games • Ultra-fast … Continue reading
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The Physics of Your Library Brand
Yes, the physics of your library brand is Newton’s Law, because the public image of “LIBRARY” is stuck in public perception as “BOOKS” – instead of everything else that libraries are becoming – a 21st Century Library requires LOTS of … Continue reading
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Perpetual Beta – The Real 21st Century Library Model?
For many months now I have been writing and contemplating about what the 21st Century Library is, does and looks like. I began with a “model” that essentially only describes various external social factors that influence the environment of a … Continue reading
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Customer Targeting – A New 21st Century Library Skill
Ever wonder what happened to that 20-something person you noticed in the library several times a couple of months ago? What did you know about them? Were they a life long community resident? A student? A parent? How about the … Continue reading
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