(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 [...]
Entrepreneurs Find Partners – spreads risk Build Teams Use other areas of organizations – i.e. Business school for business plan. Opportunity focused Should be small, simple and practical.. one idea at a time Drucker: Links Entrep and Innovations ———————Risk Some may chastise Libraries for taking risk (risk adverse) .. Libs have been rewarded for being [...]
Some interesting resources that relate to our topic of ‘strong libraries’ BUSINESS CONSIDERATIONS Active Leadership (Manage your future, inspire your staff) Leslie Burger, “Transforming Leadership,” American Libraries, November 2006, pg. 3. “The challenges faced in libraries today are changing at a rapid pace and require an agile workforce of problem-solvers, team-players, leaders, and articulate spokespeople.” [...]
Where Have All the Librarians Gone? The Academic Library Workforce of Today and Tomorrow BAD . no info .. changed title to “…..” something different .. wouldnt have chosen WILIS StudyGraying of workforceWhy people leftFollowup in Lib School Grad .. what are they doing? Left Job to reasons: Opportnities for growth New Challenging projecrs Salary [...]
Digital Libraries Need Digital Organizations:Identifying, Defining and Creating New Academic Library Management Structures 1966 – MARC1968-73 – Online Cat1971 – OCLC Union Cat – start collaboration in technology context1987 – Online Journals1991 – Web1996 – Google2001 – Wikipedia2005 – YouTube
Playing on ”Practice Fields”: Creating a Research and Development Culture in Academic Libraries Labs – Think Tanks – Testbeds – Sandboxes Environ. Scan:Strat. PlansOrg chartsPosition announcements Most is R&D is tech/open source/digitization Labs w/ user communityPortal sand gateways at GMU for grads/facU Minn. “Dig lib Dev. Lab”Zotero and Bamboo Read: James Neal re: R&D ImperativeKatherine [...]
PreConference – Managing Change, Diversity, and a Multi-Generational Workforce: Developing Effective Problem Solving and Leadership Skills Best workshop ever… 3 Tests: MBTI – Im an “ESNP” KAI KGI
Workplace Information Literacy: Cultivation Strategies for Working Smarter in 21st Century LibrariesShoot Me Please! Lets get out of our own way .. “Informed Learning” Flowcharts – Methodology, relevant models, perceptions, accomodations, yields, worldview, framework of ideas, area of concern, … Methodology description with no useful content, informed learning, participatory action research, learning with and for [...]
Allows people to be who they are, not what you want them to be
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
David Lewis (dlewis@iupui.edu) “Innovators Dillema” see site .. “Public Lib of Science” see Price for Open Source Publication Fee (ie: $2500 .. editorial board) Beware of “corporate capture” … Find Open Source Publishers / Fees .. I need samples Publishers who only do – Print on demand – ebook only ?? CC – Noncommercial-Share-Alike 3.0 [...]
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Scratch Sheet Resources Pop Business Books Seminal Businesss Tomes CC Blog Posts “The Literature” Pop Magazines Ideas Collection Topics/Chapters “Social Life of Lib. Leadership: A Web 2.0 Reader” — Disruptive Innovation/Technology Ideas/Trends — Leadership/Management in Change/Evolving Environments Organizational Change Culture Change (incl. High.Ed.) Personal Productivity — Entrepreneurship Future of Research Libraries Content (everything is Misc) [...]
Thursday, January 29, 2009
How about this? Chapters Approach (Books + Mags + Blogs) including: The world is flat – Thomas L Friedman The wisdom of crowds – James Surowiecki Wikinomics -Don Tapscott; Anthony D Williams Who moved my cheese? – Spencer Johnson The tipping point – Malcolm Gladwell Strengths based leadership -Tom Rath; Barry Conchie The seven habits [...]
