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 [...]
Competition for Library Services – Dr. Larry Nash White
Not only provider
May not be best
Not First provider (14th in OCLC Survey)
We compete with each other (libraries)
Staffing: poaching & book publishing
Competitors: (Options)
Bookstores (Physical and online)
Mom & Pop
LSSI – outsourcing lib services (public, small academic, special libraries and they do it well)
E-Books
Social Networking: .. is this replacing “library as place”
Google: 99 [...]
Meeting an Unmet Need: Extending the Learning Commons Concept Through On Campus Partnerships and Branding – La Loria Konata; GSU Learning Commons
Georgia State University (Learning Commons) .. Outreach Efforts
Assignment Calculator (widget)
Webheat (Univ Minnesota)
Campus Collaborations: (Idea .. meet with Student Activities)
Office of New Students
At Risk Students Program
McNair Scholars (Honors students) .. paired with faculty on research [...]
Alibris .. Sell Books
Scan ISBN .. populates record and instant website listing. Name Price.Incl. Subject Listing. (50 bks/hr)Pricing toolGenerates Packing SlipMailing included (figure in pricing)
Mentioned “Long Tail”Google Books .. reeducated self
Jon Obermeyer: Lunch Speaker – Stacking the Odds for Success: A Six Stage Process to Articulate and Promote Your Entrepreneurial Idea.
2 kinds of EntrepreneurshipLifestyle (small, personal) vs High Growth (corporate)
NOTES:
Identify a VERY Large problem tht needs to be solved
Not necessarily something nobody is doing… some competition good.. just identify weakness and make it better
Libraries Ideal [...]
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 [...]
