(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? [...]
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 conservative
Risk Taking vs Risk Management – go for [...]
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.”
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Jim Collins, Good to Great, [...]
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
Location
Working Environment
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 Dice – Library Trends [...]
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 beneficiaries, [...]
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
Disruptive Change:
Learn by doing
Save resources for 2nd or 3rd [...]
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”
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Disruptive Innovation/Technology
Ideas/Trends
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Leadership/Management in Change/Evolving Environments
Organizational Change
Culture Change (incl. High.Ed.)
Personal Productivity
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Entrepreneurship
Future of Research Libraries
Content (everything is Misc) – Open Access
Personal Information Management
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Reading Lists – priority
Social Life of Info
Everything is Misc
Reframing Orgs
Getting Things Done
The One Minute Manager
“Entrepreneur” [...]
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 of highly effective people – Stephen R Covey
Planet Google [...]
