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The Thinking Library
http://thinkinglibrary.blogspot.com
Library + business concepts + 2.0 technology = changing the world. One librarian's exploration of ways that libraries can learn from other industries to grow and thrive!
- Added on: Feb 18th, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Adam Wathen
- Listed in: Education Technology
- Tags: Web 2.0 library Libraries workflows acquisitions organization development
Recent Posts
Decoupling Preservation from Service
I heard Matt Goldner, the Executive Director of End User Services at OCLC talk yesterday at the NISO Resource Sharing Forum. Primarily, his talk was about recalibrating the library to be user-focused and creating tools that allow for users to easily...
Amazing how mission drives an organization
I was at the ARL "Library Management Skills Institute I: The Manager" session a couple weeks ago, and it was impressed on me how dramatically the values and perspectives of librarians changed depending on their respective organizations' missions.I wo...
Strategically Building Collections: Timberline 2008
Yesterday I presented at the Timberline Acquisitions Institute. I basically gave a profile of the kinds of changes that our library is undertaking. And, I focused particularly on the way that our new strategic plan has changed the way that we are t...
Strategic plans and conversations -- purpose in the library
The more I work with change at my library the more I am impressed by clarity of message in the research of R. David Lankes. At the Timberline Acquisitions Institute, where I have been for a couple of days now, I presented on change issues at...
Sophie software and the future of the book
Bob Stein from the Institute for the Future of the Book spoke at my library the other day about the way that integration of media can facilitate rich conversations. He brought some very interesting examples to the table of the way that social techno...
Strategic Policy-Making: Controlling the Chaos of the Organizational Swarm
Over the last several weeks, I've had to ask myself what it means to be strategic. I've been working with other librarians to determine which resources to purchase out of a strategic fund. And this got me to thinking about how strategy is really de...
