Future Ready 365 is your daily dose of intelligent solutions.

Where do these solutions come from? And who benefits from them? The answer to both questions is YOU. With your participation, this blog will have contributions from all corners of the SLA community—members, vendors, partners and users—who are interested in our community’s success.

We answer the question: How are you Future Ready?

There’s no way to sugar-coat it. The upheavals in the library and information industry in the recent past, due to economic turmoil, technological developments, and shifting user expectations, have caused many corporate libraries to close and even made some fundamental library services irrelevant. I’m convinced that amongst ourselves, we have the ideas, insight and knowledge to create our desired future. As baseball player Satchel Paige said “None of us is as smart as all of us.”

Submit your post to futureready365@sla.org.

Done. We’ll take care of the rest.

Your contribution—250 words, a handful of images, even audio and video—will build a mosaic that offers this community actionable insights into the future of our profession and association. We’d like to get your perspective, so join in!

Ideas

Need some help jump starting your medulla oblongata with these concepts:

• How have your client’s expectations of your products and services changed over the past year and how have you addressed those changes?
• If you are not feeling future ready, what is it that is getting in the way?
• With tighter budgets, what criteria do you use to make your clients future ready?

If you’d like to post on a specific day, let us know at least one week in advance of the day you’ve chosen and we will do our best to accommodate you.

And remember, Future Ready begins today!

Cindy Romaine
SLA President 2011