Library 2.0: The Human Touch
Digital work is changing the workplace in more ways than one. Besides the obvious change from book browsing to digital work, providing new distance-related services are responsible for a noticeable…
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Libraries for Life: Knowledge for Success
The most fertile questions we use to develop discovery platforms is to focus the mind on the possibilities. What is the most unusual way someone uses the library? The fact…
Libraries provide “just in time” expertise / “just in case” resources
Every community is unique, and for students a library provides 'the feeling of knowledge, the smell and the furniture of success, the lighting and the ambiance to de-stress,' that is…
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Frog in the Well Can Not Understand What is an Ocean…
As part of our continuing effort to unlock the secrets to success, we would like you to reflect on a poem by Chuang-Tzu. He stated, "A frog in a well…
REALM Update (five simple rules for managing uncertainty)
Imagine that we asked you to invent a new kind of library for a new society that lives online. The task is too vague for a team to build and…
Defining Metrics for Library Services
Librarians can provide effective and efficient ways of delivering services to their users by understanding their role. Aaron Cohen Associates, LTD has developed organizational staff plans that allow leadership to…
Leadership in Times of Change
What makes an innovation successful? As our library project experience suggests, all disruptive changes require leadership that is adaptive and well prepared for the future. According to Ronald Heifetz, Center…
Trusting Team Planning (build the courage to lead)
“Courage is a prerequisite for all leadership,” Brené Brown says. And it can be taught. It’s made up of four skills: being vulnerable is the most important, followed by sticking…
Blasting Off into the Knowledge Management Environment
Learning environments can be analyzed as a complex entity comprising many different factors. We have developed many types of library programs and know that some interactions are more important than…
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New Library Trees to the Cloud
The evolution of digital media has enhanced global perspectives in all facets of business, increasing the range, scope, and accessibility of libraries. Due to the tremendously impact-full influence of Covid,…