Part Six – Overcoming 6 Challenges to Special Library Sustainability
In our final post of our Overcoming 6 challenges to Special Library Sustainability we tackle one of the largest challenges, affordability.
10 Questions Your ILS Should Help Answer
Whether buying new, or upgrading an existing ILS these 10 crucial questions will help you select a platform best fits your organization’s needs and goals.
10 Questions Your KM System Should Help Answer
Whether buying new, or upgrading an existing KM system these 10 crucial questions will help you select a platform best fits your organization’s needs.
Knowledge Management: End Users, Customers, or Clients. What’s the Difference?
Recognizing the differences between end users, customers, and clients can impact a knowledge center or library’s role and perception within an organization.
Presto for DB/Textworks Ultimately Helps Increase Workplace Safety, Minimize Risk
Learn how PFTA leverages Inmagic Presto for DB/TextWorks to widely disseminate information that helps companies to have safe workplaces.
When is a KM Tool not a Tool?
Tools are supposed to make work easier but, many KM tools only complicate matters—because of this, they are their own biggest barrier to adoption.
Part Five – Overcoming 6 Challenges to Special Library Sustainability
In our fifth post of our six part series we look at the challenge of dependence on the IT department, or on costly vendor services to library success.
What Does Successful Knowledge Management Look Like? 11 Key Attributes
Stan Garfield provides a glimpse into his new book and shares the description and attributes of a knowledge ecosystem.
Part Four – Overcoming 6 Challenges to Special Library Sustainability
In this, our fourth post in our series about the 6 major challenges to library success we look at overcoming a lack of integration with other critical systems.
Do You Deliver Content via Your Organization’s Website? Upward Mobility is Key!
With recent changes to Google’s search algorithm, librarians and knowledge managers need to ensure their sites are mobile friendly in order to be found easier.
Knowledge Management—as Easy as Falling off a Bike?
In KM, knowledge is often defined as either explicit or tacit. Collaboration is critical for KM and explicit knowledge is a critical part of your KM ecosystem.
Part Three – Overcoming 6 Challenges to Special Library Sustainability
In this, our third post in our series about the 6 major challenges to library success we look at on overcoming the library being seen as an info bottleneck.
What Does Success Look Like?
When special librarians keep their eye on the bigger picture they know they are succeeding and what that success looks like.
Part Two – Overcoming 6 Challenges to Special Library Sustainability
This is the second post in our series about the six major challenges to library success.
Why Sharing Your Library’s Successes is about more than Celebrating
Communicating the value of your department’s content and services by publicizing your successes is something you must do regularly.
Part One – Overcoming 6 Challenges to Special Library Sustainability
When we talk with information management pros, the same 6 library success and sustainability challenges pop up, regardless of company size, industry or locale.
Is Your Library Ready for Generation Z?
Gen Z is the cohort that follows Millennials and they have very specific expectations about information access and knowledge exchange. Get ready for them now.
The Librarian’s Secret Weapon
Learn how the ability to practice that art in support of a patron’s or user’s needs is a librarian’s secret weapon.
Serendipity—Enabling “Happy Accidents” is both Art and Science
Lucidea brings the purpose-built software platform, and you bring the art and science. Together, we can enable serendipity.
Archives Collections Management Applications—the Buy Versus Build Conundrum
When archivists have poor collections management software, a lot of time is spent working around problems and replacing it becomes a buy versus build scenario.
What Could You have in Common with The Metropolitan Museum of Art?
Like our Argus clients, The Metropolitan Museum of Art focuses on accessibility to attract more than 50 million digital visits per year.
Becoming Even More Relevant to your Target Audience: Webinar Reprise
Nina Simon is back for another webinar with us. On Feb. 2, learn from one of today’s most inspiring and thought-provoking museum evangelists and strategists.
The Arizona State Archives—Fulfilling their Mission to Increase Public Access
With the CuadraSTAR SKCA, the collections at Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records are now more visible and available than ever before. Read how.
Peer Mentoring is a Great Professional Development Option for Solo Librarians
Will you learn from other professionals on how to run your library, and will you share your knowledge with others?
Relevance and its Rewards — For Museum, Library and KM Professionals Interested in Mattering More, to More People
Nina Simon offers advice that applies whether you work in a library, a museum, a theater, a park, an academic institution or a corporation. It’s all relevant.