Developing Your Library's Operational Plan: Five Essential Steps
3rd July 2013

Yulia Aspinall explores five essential elements when developing a robust operational plan for a library's information services. Over time she has adapted and adopted areas from libraries, competitive intelligence, knowledge management and  technical services operational planning to create a specific plan tailored to the unique needs of information services.

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Source Update July 2013: What's Happening with Nexis?
2nd July 2013

This month's additions and changes in Nexis, researched and compiled by Anne Jordan.

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LIKE's IDEAS 2013 Conference: Manage and Monetise Big Data
2nd July 2013

Big data is the information industry's buzz term of the moment, so this year's London Information Knowledge Exchange (LIKE) conference entitled "From Big Data to Little Apps: How You Can Access, Present and Deliver Information in the Workplace" was very timely. The audience heard how enterprises from Formula One's McLaren to media app Shazam are managing, visualising and monetising big data and what opportunities this new area provides for information professionals.

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Do Social Tools Help or Hinder Intranet Managers?
1st July 2013

Social media websites and tools have become so well entrenched within the consumer market that we now all take their use for granted. Behind the firewall, however it’s a different matter. Social tools are often viewed with suspicion and regarded as a waste of time by many. So, do social tools help or hinder intranet managers?

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Source Update July 2013: What's Happening with EBSCO?
1st July 2013

This month's additions and changes in EBSCO, researched and compiled by Anne Jordan.

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Hacking - Risk or Opportunity?
28th June 2013

Recent reports from the Bank of England and PwC (in a survey commissioned by Iron Mountain) both show that information security is a growing concern for executives. But while the financial institutions polled by the Bank demonstrate at least some confidence in their ability to handle cyber security issues, PwC’s medium sized businesses seem much less well equipped to deal with hacking. As Britain’s Home Office prepares to launch a cyber security campaign, aimed partly at small businesses, recent incidents at LexisNexis and LinkedIn suggest that no-one is safe, no matter how technologically adept.

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FreePint Report: Information Services Management Monthly Update (June 2013)
27th June 2013

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Mini Review: Lexis Diligence
27th June 2013

Lexis Diligence is designed to help a company perform due diligence in the areas of risk, compliance and fraud, including areas such as litigation history and a politically exposed person check. Following FreePint's 2011 review, Sophie Alexander put the product's new features to the test, including Google Translate, negative news check, a 30 day saved search history, and the addition of 1700 new titles.

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The Meaning and Value of Facebook "Likes"
27th June 2013

Since its introduction in 2009, the "like" button on Facebook has crept into every aspect of our lives. Most users of Facebook are aware that they can like a photograph, status update or content that a friend has added. Individuals can also share that they like a particular company, product or individual. According to Facebook the like button is clicked an average of 2.7 billion times a day and is deeply entrenched in our use of the social media tool. So could the concept of "liking" content move behind the firewall on to intranets and other social tools?

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FreePint Report: News Aggregation Products and Trends
26th June 2013

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