Information has no border. Culture does.
23rd January 2008

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Searching for the killer app
17th January 2008

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Silos primed for demolition
17th January 2008

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Compliance – gearing up a notch
2nd January 2008

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Social networking for business ‘hyped up’
2nd January 2008

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The Library in the Twenty-first Century: New Services for the Information Age [ABSTRACT]
1st January 2008

Are libraries threatened with extinction, or are they morphing into a universal hub of information and knowledge, an indispensable factor in the success of their constituents? Peter Brophy weighs in on the discussion once again with the revised edition of his comprehensive assessment of "The Library in the Twenty-first Century" (London: Facet Publishing). Six years after the initial publication of this book, Brophy sees no reason to revise his original judgment that libraries continue to be under threat and have to be proactive, if not aggressive about defining and taking their place in their respective environments, whether it is universities, schools, corporations, or the general public.

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Widgets for Content Distribution: A Shift in the Internet [ABSTRACT]
1st January 2008

In what has been described as the "deportalization" of the Internet, users of Web 2.0 services are no longer content to use the big portals. Instead, these users seek to create their own Internet spaces. Web 2.0 users want to select the content they need, group it with other content in which they are interested, arrange that on a blog or social network page, customise its look, comment on it and share it with friends or colleagues.

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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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