SLA excerpted a chapter from Intranets for Info Pros (a book edited by Mary Lee Kenndey and me, Jane Dysart) in it’s most recent issue, Jan 08, of Information Outlook. Check it out!
Here’s SLA’s description of the article:
Information professionals with intranet-based responsibilities are interested in knowing what work is emerging in the marketplace, what they need to know to do their best work, and what opportunities are available to them for ongoing professional development. With the incredible speed of change in information technology, the increasing levels of sophistication of the user base, and the ubiquitous nature of information, keeping pace with, let alone leading the intranet experience, is a challenge.
Friend, colleague, mentor, and overall brilliant guy, Stephen Abram is now Presdient of the SLA, a 12,000 international member organization, and his agenda: “Innovate in 2008″. Stephen always has great ideas and has mobilized a terrific group of volunteers to work with him in many areas — learning, impacting, communicating, and more. We look forward to his leadership as he blows the cobwebs from this almost 100 year old organization! Check out his two articles in the January 08 issue of Information Outlook: A Year for Innovation at SLA Will Mean New Opportunities & It’s Our Mandate to Release the Energy of Our Members.
Do you wonder what his keynote next month in NYC to O’Reilly’s Tools for Change for Publishing will focus on?
As always I love Google’s art. And don’t you feel old knowing Lego is 50??
Information Today’s 23rd annual CIL conference will take place at the Crystal City Hyatt, April 7-9. Check out the program online and visit the conference wiki. New this year on the CIL site is a list of speakers with some background info on each of them and the session/s in which they are speaking. Cool, thanks Bill! Another exciting addition to this year’s CIL conference is a fifth track on each of the three days — imagine, five tracks of 5 sessions each day. Better bring all your staff to cover all the fabulous sessions. And if you’re into gaming and gadgets, you better check out the Sunday evening event. See you there.
How could I forget? A great source for academic libraries on organizational transformations is University of Arizona Libraries’ Living the Future Living the Future 7 is April 30 - May 2.
I’m talking with a group through the Education Institute tomorrow on “Organization 2.0“ (really just a catchy title for organizational design that supports collaborative technologies and working approaches). For those interested in shaping your organization to underpin your strategies (which IS what an org chart is supposed to do…), these are some good starting sources. I’m hoping someone out there will have a look at this list and add to it - please do!
Jay R. Galbraith’s Designing Organizations
Charles Grantham’s The Future of Work
Frank Ostroff’s The Horizontal Organization
Margaret Davis’ A Practical Guide to Organization Design
Alex & David Bennet’s Organizational Survival in the New World
Maureen Sullivan’s “Organization Development in Libraries,” in Library Administration & Management, Fall 2004
And, of course…..the Organization Design Forum has a wealth of recommendations too.
If you haven’t already, subscribe to Libvibe to listen to Marv Kaminsky’s 8 minute broadcasts of news for those of us involved with libraries. Being rather ADD, I really value libvibe since I can listen to Marv while scanning something else. Today’s broadcast is especially great to start off the new year with: he interviews one of my favourite speakers, Lee Rainee, Director at Pew, who gives the highlights of their recent study. Guess what? “Members of Gen Y are the leading users of libraries for helping solve problems and in more general patronage.” Yahoo! (no connection to the website) - worth reading at Pew’s latest reports.
