Knowledge Services in Practice – Jeannette Privat of the King County Library System’s Nonprofit and Philanthropy Resource Center
May 27, 2010
Marcie Stone has interviewed and come to know Jeannette Privat, a leading member of the specialized libraries community. For five decades Privat has focused on specialized librarianship, information management, and knowledge services delivery.
In today’s KM/knowledge services marketplace, Privat continues to bring customer-focused products and services to a continually expanding target group: knowledge workers in the nonprofit and philanthropy community who must access information, knowledge, and strategic learning content to achieve organizational effectiveness.
Working with the King County Library System’s Nonprofit and Philanthropy Resource Center, which she created in 2000, Privat brings the professional expertise, subject strengths, and marketing skills of specialized librarianship to an extremely popular program. In cooperation with The Foundation Center, NPRC provides access to Foundation Center databases for NPRC clients and offers a heavy schedule of educational, awareness-raising, networking, and strategic learning opportunities to nonprofit staff of the Pacific Northwest.
A side benefit of Privat’s involvement with NPRC has been the development of a nonprofit community of practice, a networking opportunity ready-made for people who seek to learn how they can work better and smarter in the nonprofit and philanthropic arena.
For the full story, read the latest SMR International e-Profile: Never Lunch Alone… And Other Immutable Precepts for Creating a Knowledge Culture, by Marcie Stone.
Tags: Foundation Center, information services, King County Library System Nonprofit and Philanthropy Resources Center (NPRC), KM, knowledge services, Privat (Jeannette), SLA, Special Libraries Association, specialized librarianship, Strategic Learning, The Knowledge Culture
