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Searcher
Jul/Aug 2003
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice: IPI? Yippee! The future for librarians and information professionals.   |
Searcher
Jul/Aug 2010 |
Correspondence Letters from SLA's CEO and a Searcher-reading SLA member about a recent article and Searcher's Voice column, respectively, on matters concerning the Special Libraries Association. |
Information Today
October 26, 2009
Cindy Shamel |
SLA Name Change: Can the Name Convey the Value? Last week, Special Libraries Association leadership announced that members will soon vote on a new name. |
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. |
Searcher
June 2006
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Cassandra Grumbles A library is what is left over when a librarian goes home. |
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. |
Searcher
August 2002
Rebecca T. Lenzini |
The Graying of the Library Profession A survey of our professional association and their responses. |
Energize
February 2011
Susan J. Ellis |
Real Professions Have Strong Associations Ever since I've been in volunteerism, and that's almost four decades now, periodically someone raises the question: "Is volunteer management a profession or a skilled job?" |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2011
Marydee Ojala |
Why I Library, and You Should Too As technology changes physical collections to electronic ones, and reshapes the entire notion of what a library is, the noun librarian is becoming even less appropriate for the profession. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2003
Marydee Ojala |
What's in a Name? The vote was to remain as Special Libraries Association. For some, this was nothing less than an identity crisis. Was this an association for librarians or not? |
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
August 2012
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - 'Concierge' Librarian We may face competition from other specialist information professionals, but maybe the enemy will be us or at least someone we can hire. It's the information profession we are defending, not just librarians. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2011
Marydee Ojala |
Strength in Numbers Libraries worldwide are under threat. Yet information professionals should not despair. We bring a unique perspective to these dual challenges, and we have strength in numbers. |
Information Today
June 30, 2015
Marydee Ojala |
The Future of SLA: A Strategic Framework and Recommendations for Moving Forward This is a crucial time for the Special Libraries Association. Founded in 1909 by John Cotton Dana, SLA is in the midst of an identity crisis. |
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? |
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. |
Information Today
August 2003
Dick Kaser |
Still SLA to You and Me SLA's ability to avoid the Druids' path to quick obsolescence and follow the Shinto path to long-term survival is safe within the capable hands of a good team of professional knowledge managers who have been elected to help run the organization. |
Searcher
December 2012
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Long View In a world where most people suffer from information overload and the price for ignorance continues to rise, imagine how useful it would be to scan curated results, stamped with the librarian's seal of approval. It's so obvious. |
Information Today
December 14, 2009 |
SLA Is Still SLA; Membership Votes No on Name Change Special Libraries Association members failed to approve a proposal to change the organization's name to the Association for Strategic Knowledge Professionals. |
Searcher
February 2003
Barbara Quint |
The L-Word Technical service librarians have tales of patrons in awe of their ability to capture a book lost to the ages, to discover the unknown gems that completed the perfect bibliography. |
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. |
Information Today
June 16, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
Special Libraries Association Keeps Its Name Following 3 years of research, heated discussions, and brand name debates, the members of the Special Libraries Association voted to retain the organization's nearly 100-year-old name. |
Searcher
October 2011
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Ideal Library In the best of all possible worlds, what would the best of all possible libraries look like? Who would it serve? What would it do? |
ONLINE
Jan./Feb. 2007
Marydee Ojala |
Time for an Anniversary Party The information professionals' use of online technologies and electronic content predates the personal computer and the World Wide Web. |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2003
Marydee Ojala |
Certifying Information Professionals The issue of certification for librarians and other information professionals is one of long-standing -- it's never been completely resolved and is not destined to fade into the sunset. |
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. |
Searcher
January 2009
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - What's Next? Has the world of one giant and universal LIBRARY finally arrived? Stay tuned. This is an issue we have covered regularly and will continue to cover this year and beyond, I suspect. |
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... |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2012
Marydee Ojala |
Value, Vision, and Big Data Librarians understood Big Data before Big Data was cool -- and before it gained such popularity. Information professionals must seize these opportunities and convince those outside the profession that we bring significant value to the Big Data world. |
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. |
Searcher
February 2009
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Downs and Ups of Fear Librarians, libraries, and their vendors should join to create tools that can help people everywhere survive the hard times and get the recovery going. |
ONLINE
Nov./Dec. 2006
Marydee Ojala |
The HomePage - Perspectives, Perceptions, and Periscopes Librarians share the same perspective when naming their type of library. Perceptions of libraries, however, differ, depending on perspective. |
Searcher
October 2002
Barbara Quint |
Critical Conditions Technological advances in delivering information relevant and sufficient to serve client needs work best when information professionals assume the driver's seat. |
Information Today
November 24, 2008
Barbara Quint |
The Wisdom of Crowds of Librarians Is on the Way--In Time: Reference Extract Experts from three top library and information science institutions have begun a process that they promise will lead to a new search engine with a new infrastructure designed to emphasize authoritative content. |
Searcher
February 2001
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Dot-Lib Why there should be a .lib top level domain. |
Information Today
October 30, 2014 |
PCG Survey Reveals That Libraries Provide OA Funds Almost 25% of respondents noted that libraries offer funding for article processing charges), some of which comes from existing materials budgets. |
Searcher
December 2009
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Too Close for Comfort It's not just tough times that imperil traditional libraries. The economic crisis is speeding up the cascade of technological and societal tipping points, but those tipping points would happen regardless of the economy. |
ONLINE
November 2000
Bob Ainsbury & Michelle Futornick |
The Revenge of the Library Scientist Business professionals would be surprised at just how suited librarians are to the dot com world... |
Searcher
February 2007
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Good Ideas Donating books to libraries... The future of libraries... |
Energize
December 2004
Susan J. Ellis |
Chicken or Egg: Why Are Our Professional Associations Weak? This issue, which obviously starts at the local level on up (or perhaps on the national level on down), is integrally related with the recurring question of "is volunteer management a profession?" |
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. |
Information Today
December 22, 2003
Susanne Bjorner |
Lights Come Down on the Longest Running Online Show in New York Information Today, Inc. (ITI), producer for the past 24 years of the National Online Meeting in New York City each May, announced that it is skipping the industry-wide conference in 2004 and will return in 2005 with a "reinvented" event that will bring in "the new breed of information buyers." |
Searcher
June 2002
Miriam A. Drake |
The U.S. Census bureau in the 21st Century In order to learn more about access and distribution of the Census, I sent surveys to two librarians associated with the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) of the ALA. While these librarians could not speak for GODORT, they presented some interesting perspectives... |
Searcher
August 2001 |
Searcher Correspondence Multiple reactions to the denunciation of Double-Fold... more free magazines online at MagPortal... linking to SLA and Carol Tenopir... |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2013
Charles R. Chaffin |
Making the Case for CFP Standards While the planning profession has evolved considerably, there is still work to be done. |
D-Lib
September 2000 |
To the Editor Letters received in response to the story, Automated Digital Libraries: How Effectively Can Computers Be Used for the Skilled Tasks of Professional Librarianship? |
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
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. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 21, 2005
Khurana & Nohria |
Is Business Management a Profession? If management was a licensed profession on a par with law or medicine, there might be fewer opportunities for corporate bad guys, argue Harvard professors Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria, and research associate Daniel Penrice. |
