Getting Students Future Ready
by Jill Hurst-Wahl, SLA Board of Directors As a faculty member, I interact daily with LIS students. These students are arriving in their programs feeling ill-prepared for their futures, yet also...
View ArticleGET INVOLVED
by Ethel M Salonen, Boston Chapter and SLA Past-President What do I mean by GET INVOLVED? Involved in what? Get involved with your customer’s work program…get involved in their meetings…get involved...
View ArticleThoughts On Innovation
by Victoria Harriston, Washington DC Chapter Innovation, always on my mind, sitting in traffic and yes even in my sleep. Why? Because I know that no matter what our Research Center is doing there’s...
View ArticleInfo Pros! Research Thyself!
by Gretchen Leslie, Oregon Chapter, Science-Technology Division I am writing this post because I believe we, as an association, have not really done a good job of researching our industry—the...
View ArticleFuture Ready Libraries?
Karen Sawatzky, Librarian, Tapper Cuddy LLP, Winnipeg, MB Reposted with permission from Slaw. Everyone’s talking about the future. From LegalTech New York, where the closing keynote was the practice...
View ArticleHow are senior business information managers future ready?
by Allan Foster, Europe Chapter and Business & Finance Division For more years than I care to remember I have been charting developments in business information use through an annual survey of...
View ArticleBuild a Network to Engage and Partner with Stakeholders
By Karen Huffman, Washington D.C. Chapter, Knowledge Management Division Future Ready Toolkit This post is from SLA’s new Future Ready Toolkit. The Toolkit was constructed by SLA members who have...
View ArticleThink Like an Entrepreneur
by Christine Hamilton-Pennell, Rocky Mountain Chapter, Competitive Intelligence and Taxonomy Divisions Associating with entrepreneurs is energizing! I have spent much of the last eight years working...
View ArticleWho Is SLA?
Howdy from the beautiful Rocky Mountains! The Rocky Mountain chapter of SLA is thrilled to contribute this week’s FutureReady365 posts. We are a small, diverse community of 150+ members spread across...
View ArticleContinuously Competent Professionals
by Sara Tompson SLA needs to be growing and supporting continuously competent professionals. In a field that changes as rapidly as does ours – I know I am not the only one who originally learned to...
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