Saturday, September 26, 2009
http://www.missionstatements.com/company_mission_statements.html
Company
A company’s mission statement is a constant reminder to its employees of why the company exists and what the founders envisioned when they put their fame and fortune at risk to breathe life into their dreams. Woe to the company that loses sight of its Mission Statement for it has taken the first step on [...]
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Saturday, September 26, 2009
http://www.davidleeking.com/2009/06/18/who-are-your-competitors/
by David Lee King on June 18, 2009
Who are your competitors? Umm … David … we don’t have competitors … we’re a public library. I think you DO indeed have competitors. You probably have more competitors than you ever did, for that matter.
Think about it for a sec.
If I want a book, where can I [...]
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Idea: Wordle to analyze text of statements of purpose: mission, core values, goals, interviews, – using the tool in analysis of missions of GREAT organizations – innovative libraries and entrepreneurial organizations. How to great organizations see themselves? Who do they wish to be?
Libraries have competitors in a marketplace. Competition, not for the dollar, but for [...]
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http://slisweb.sjsu.edu
Videocast
“Now Discover Your Strengths” – Marcus Buckingham
- Focus on strengths not remedying weaknesses
- We spend too much time and energy with bottom feeders.. focus on & support top performers
- Self-awareness of strengths
“Good to Great” – Jim Collins
- First Who? then What?.. hire for who first .. not specific job
- Right People on Right Bus in [...]
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Tina Seelig ; Stanford Technology Ventures Program – Podcast
What I Wish I Knew When I Was Twenty” – her book
Every problem is an opportunity. The bigger the problem the opportunity
Entrepreneurship Competition
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It was my idea first. Ever get a brilliant idea and before publishing it, someone gets the same brilliant idea. Answer .. blog it quick!
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(these references are incomplete)
Video Casts
Clayton Christiensen – Disruptive Innovation and The Way We Learning (“Disrupting Class. 2009) – WGBH Boston
Jim Collins – Charlie Rose – “Good to Great”
Columbia U – Scholarly Comm – Harvard Open Access Initiatives – Jim Neal (Columbia) / Stuart Scheiber (Harvard)
John Willinsky: The Quality of Open Scholarship: What Follows from Open? [...]
Taking Account:
Mission Comments from:
Books: OMM; GTG; GTG Social; True North; Leadership Ensemble + those to come
Conferences/Projects:
ACRL
Greensboro
CIT
David Lewis
SUNYLA
NYLINK: Implementing and Managing Change …
2.0 Tools
Bergren
Publishing
Management / Leadership / Entrepreneurship / Thoughts
Mission, Vision, Goals
MBTI
Flatten Orgs
GTG
Authentic Leadership
Competition
Visits and Biblioteca
Visted: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek – Bavarian State Library: Munich Bavarian State Library: Located in Munich, this large library was named Germany’s [...]
Traditionally innovative – 450 Years of the Bavarian State Library
Munich celebrates. In the Bavarian capital the year 2008 – at least within the city’s thriving library network – marks a very special birthday. The Bavarian State Library (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) [...]
(New) Clarkson University Library Director (Michelle L. Young)
Director .. dont offer tenure for that position .. she has an “Evergreen contract”
Director Goal: To set in motion the University Libraries’ transformation towards excelling academic excellence through the implementation of programs, policies and strategies geared towards the innovative vision of libraries in the 20th century.
Notes:
Risk Tolerant
Solicit [...]
Using Resources Wisely – Rich Dreifuss (Geneseo)
OCLC Report on Online Catalogs Catalog Reconstruction (Aleph 500 Cat)
large team
good management support
took 6 months (met every 3 or weeks) – subcommittees did work
used U Albany usability study
book “Benchmarking for Best Practices”
borrowed from U Albany (search options)
Notre Dame (search forms)
Duke (tabs)
MIT (two-way sortable columns)
used a wiki .. collecting ideas, [...]
Flexibility or Standards: Template or Not - can use own language
Pictures – students identify
Access? Assigned or Everyone (Potsdam)
Documents / Pdfs / ppts
Useful to have a basic research guide
Faculty training .. ESF
Citation
Refworks (Endnote?)
Springshare Community – see other people guides (can copy)
Link .. Don’t duplicate content on web
Can create own widgets in Admin – grab code
Encourage starring [...]
Keynote: R. David Lankes – Syracuse
The Mission of Librarians: To Improve Society Through Facilitating Knowledge Creation in their Communities
Screencast: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=760
See Join the Mission – http://www.DavidLankes.org
Serve
Innovate – bring about change
Lead – Librarians are trusted 3rd party source, lead on campus, obligation to say “you can be better”
… global mission .. improvement ..libraries about knowledge not [...]
Librarian Entrepreneurs: Demystifying a Professional Oxymoron: Steven J. Bell
- Bell’s Presentation – steal this ..
Made Video of Question to start off presentation
Hand drawn pictures and text
Name a Librarian who is an Entrepreneur? .. don’t now Name any Entrepreneur? Gates, Trump .. don’t know
Confusion with “resourceful” “innovative”
7 Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneur
Opportunistic: Israel and waste [...]
