Special librarians can use mind mapping or a four-box approach to begin and guide research, discovery, project and report creation and development.
Part Five: Aligning Research Results with Decision-Making—Mind Mapping and Boxes
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Stephen Abram
Stephen Abram is a popular Lucidea Webinars presenter. He is the past president of SLA, and the Canadian and Ontario Library Associations. He is the CEO of Lighthouse Consulting and the executive director of the Federation of Ontario Public Libraries. He blogs personally at Stephen’s Lighthouse (www.stephenslighthouse.com).
Part Four: Aligning Research Results with Decision-Making—SWOT and Fish Bones
Special librarians can use SWOT analysis to identify strengths and weaknesses that inform research and services development.
Part Two: Aligning Research Results with Decision-Making—Thinking About Thinking (Edward de Bono)
In order to develop better products and services, special librarians can use strategy frameworks to help analyze how clients think and make decisions.
Part One: Aligning Research Results with Decision-Making—SWOT, 4-Squares, Fish Bones, and More
Special librarians must align research services with how clients process information to reduce cycle time between getting information to making decisions.
Ready to Read: Succeeding in the World of Special Librarianship
Stephen Abram’s new Lucidea Press book “Succeeding in the World of Special Librarianship” offers valuable professional development tips for librarians.
Alexa, Siri, Cortana, Google Home, AR, AI, Machine Learning and the Special Librarian
Library consultant Stephen Abram describes ways for special librarians to understand/embrace technologies that “move the needle in the question space.”
Part Three: Building Your KM Nest – 5 More Strategies for Special Librarians
Consultant Stephen Abram outlines strategies librarians can adopt to facilitate growth of ideas and better decision quality, beyond knowledge management.
Part Two: Building Your KM Nest – 5 of 10 Strategies for Special Librarians
Consultant Stephen Abram outlines strategies librarians can adopt to improve the health of a “knowledge ecology” rather than focusing on KM.
Part One: Building Your KM Nest – What Did Einstein Know about Knowledge Management?
Library consultant Stephen Abram describes how librarians can adapt to evolving end user needs, asserting that information combined with insight rules.
Is There Such a Thing as Information Overload?
Special librarians embody the solution to enterprise information overload, per library consultant Stephen Abram.
Access is Not Equal to Know-how
Library consultant Stephen Abram explains the importance of differentiating “access to knowledge” from “know-how” and the librarian’s resultant value-add.
Future Ready: The Emerging New Library/Librarian Experience
Library consultant Stephen Abram explains that the experience of using a library whether physical or virtual results in the transformation of the user.
Openness and the Embedded Library Experience
Library consultant and advocate Stephen Abram defines what it means for special librarians and information professional to be organizationally embedded.
Innovation: No Excuses
Library consultant and advocate Stephen Abram offers practical advice on jumpstarting innovation for special librarians and information professionals.
Blogging as a Special Librarian
Library consultant and advocate Stephen Abram offers personal and practical advice on blogging for special librarians and information professionals.
Elevator Speeches: No Magic Beans
Elevator speeches—sound bites we practice in case we get the ear of a decision maker—are opportunities to bait the hook. How do you effectively follow up?
Part Four: Client Engagement in Special Libraries—Simple Tactics to Build On
Special librarians’ best networking options begin outside the library. Stephen Abram offers a roadmap for client engagement via many channels and moments.
Part Three: Client Engagement in Special Libraries—What are the skills and competencies for engagement?
Stephen Abram explains what is needed for success and where to focus your professional development in order to increase client engagement in special libraries.
Part Two: Client Engagement in Special Libraries—Tracking and engaging your clients
Stephen Abram explains how in special libraries, using a CRM platform helps to pull together your knowledge of your clients and colleagues.
Part One: Client Engagement in Special Libraries—What is it?
Stephen Abram explores the difference between a Special librarian and an Information Professional what that means for client engagement. (Part 1)
Earning the Right to Give Advice
Sometimes it is difficult to offer guidance confidently, yet it is our obligation to do so. In this post, Stephen offers his thoughts on why and how to begin.
Part 3: 33 Tips to Increase Innovation Capacity in your Library
Part 3/3: Stephen give the final ten tips (and a bonus) on how librarians can increase their capacity for innovation.
Part 2: 33 Tips to Increase Innovation Capacity in your Library
The second post in this series, Stephen shares 22 of his 33 tips for increasing innovation capacity in your special library.
Part 1: 33 Tips to Increase Innovation Capacity in your Library
The first post in a series, Stephen shares 12 of his 33 tips for increasing innovation capacity in your special library.