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Library Planning Research Social Library Issues work in progress

Cost Benefit Analysis: Support Sustainable Development Goals

Did you ever wonder what the “sustainable” part of “sustainable development” mean? According to IFLA's Libraries and the Sustainable Development Goals, it is a “development that meets the needs of…

acohen November 17, 2020

Library Planning Research Social Library Issues

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…

acohen November 5, 2020

Social Library Issues Space Planning

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…

acohen October 30, 2020

Library Planning Research Social Library Issues

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…

acohen October 23, 2020

Library Planning Research

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…

acohen October 14, 2020

Library Planning Research Social Library Issues

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…

acohen October 9, 2020

Library Planning Research Space Planning work in progress

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…

acohen October 5, 2020

Library Planning Research work in progress

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…

acohen September 28, 2020

Library Planning Research Social Library Issues

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…

acohen September 24, 2020

Library Planning Research library technology work in progress

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…

acohen September 18, 2020