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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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) is celebrating 450th anniversary. The history of the present-day Bavarian State Library (Bayerischen 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. [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]