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Prospect Research: Finally Coming of Age [ABSTRACT]
1st January 2008

Research has been my passion and my job for many years. It's the daily challenges and uncertainty that keep me coming back time and time again. I've been involved with academic research, conducted surveys in developing countries and have even been a TV programme researcher. But for the past 6 years I've been honing my skills in a completely different branch of research - prospect research. Employed in the charity (or non-profit) sector, prospect research is little known outside of fundraising circles and even less understood.

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Have a beta-test mind - just do it!: An interview with the British Library and SLA [ABSTRACT]
1st January 2008

What do a publicly funded institution like the British Library and the competitive members of the Special Libraries Association have to offer each other in the web 2.0 era? Tim Buckley Owen has been asking BL chief executive Lynne Brindley and SLA chief executive Janice Lachance.

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The Leaving Employee: Knowledge Management for Surviving and Thriving [ABSTRACT]
1st January 2008

Regardless of their role within an organisation, an employee accumulates a career worth of knowledge: knowledge about the industry, their role, the company, its products, employees, and customers. While most of us can breathe a sigh of relief that our job doesn't entail launching billion dollar rockets into orbit, irrespective of the industry we work in we are all faced with the same problem - how to minimise the loss of critical, valuable experience and information when an employee leaves the company.

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