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Top 11 Lessons from FutureReady365

Top 11 Lessons from FutureReady365

365 days of solutions, strategies, tactics, and tips by information professionals around the world. Here are some lessons Cindy Romaine learned from the experience of running a daily blog. Read more...

Future Now: Operation Agility

Future Now: Operation Agility

How can we best be prepared for a future which is already here? Read more...

Leaping Off the Edge to New Opportunities

Leaping Off the Edge to New Opportunities

I often hear my colleagues discuss how SLA or other professional associations need to do more for members. What I don’t hear so much is how we can do more for ourselves. Read more...

Living in the ‘New Normal’

Living in the ‘New Normal’

I try not to be one of those who laments the loss of former times, but we are moving in a "new normal" and must take action to become a part of it. Read more...

Federal Librarians Are Trending and Are Future Ready!

Federal Librarians Are Trending and Are Future Ready!

Do you know the seven major trends defining how libraries can become future ready? Read more...

Small Changes Can Make a Big Difference

Small Changes Can Make a Big Difference

The future comes one day at a time; use each day to prepare for it. Read more...

MLW 2011, from the eyes of a first-time attendee

MLW 2011, from the eyes of a first-time attendee

The time-tested future ready recipe? A dash of professional development, a pinch of service obligation and a pound of...camaraderie. Read more...

Boxes and Baubles

Boxes and Baubles

November 4, 2011

Unless we connect a new application or technology to our patrons’ lives, it will remain at best a shiny bauble, briefly smiled at and then discarded.

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What Are the Key Qualities for Information Professionals?

What Are the Key Qualities for Information Professionals?

November 3, 2011

What “qualities” do you look for in an applicant? And how would you try to ascertain them?

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Preparing MLIS Students to be Ready for the Future

Preparing MLIS Students to be Ready for the Future

November 2, 2011

Virtual conferences can provide an additional opportunity for professionals to learn, network, and build lifelong collaborative communities.

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Designing for flow: Part 2 – New opportunity, new role and new tools

Designing for flow: Part 2 – New opportunity, new role and new tools

November 1, 2011

Effective information management goes to the heart of corporate initiatives. If librarians can be seen leading the charge, they can make the case for being integral to the organization.

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Systems Thinking – A Lens for Future Growth

Systems Thinking – A Lens for Future Growth

October 31, 2011

Systems thinking is best used to address complex problems where solutions seem elusive as well as problems that reoccur in an organization, especially problems for which past fixes have failed.

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Get Out of the Library!

Get Out of the Library!

October 30, 2011

Networking with other departments isn't just the the job of the library director, it is important for each of us to represent ourselves individually.

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For Future SAKE

For Future SAKE

October 29, 2011

To provide e-leadership, librarians need to embrace failure and develop their SAKE competence.

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Keeping Up With Digital Future

Keeping Up With Digital Future

October 28, 2011

How do you accomplish your goal if you must provide not only the best sources of information, but also the most comprehensive?

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What would you do if you weren’t afraid to fail?

What would you do if you weren’t afraid to fail?

October 27, 2011

If we fear failure and avoid it at all costs we won’t challenge ourselves to explore...

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The Art of Being Future Ready

The Art of Being Future Ready

October 26, 2011

There are now more ways to get information than ever before but there will always be a need to better deliver information to our customers.

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