News: Three Inducted into Specialized Librarianship Hall of Fame

Judy Field, John V. Ganly, and Guy St. Clair were inducted into the SLA Hall of Fame at the 101st Annual Conference of SLA (Special Libraries Association), held recently in New Orleans, LA. Field is Professional in Residence at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI, and Ganly is formerly Assistant Director, Science, Industry, and Business [...]

Knowledge Services in Practice – Jeannette Privat of the King County Library System’s Nonprofit and Philanthropy Resource Center

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 [...]

Learn: Measuring KM/Knowledge Services

Save the date: Friday, June 11, 2010 – New Orleans, LA USA The course: KMKS 08 Critical Success Factors: Measuring Knowledge Services Learn techniques and tools for measuring success in knowledge services in this popular Click U course. You’ll learn about the value of metrics in the KM/knowledge services process and have the opportunity to [...]

News: SLA in Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences

The third edition of Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Editor(s): Marcia J. Bates, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA;   Mary Niles Maack, University of California, Los Angeles, USA has been announced, with an article on the Special Libraries Association (SLA) written by three members of the association. Co-Author Guy St. Clair is the President and Consulting Specialist in Knowledge [...]

John Cotton Dana and Knowledge Services

Learn how John Cotton Dana was defining knowledge services when he founded the Special Libraries Association

Specialized Librarianship: Thinking About the Future

Ten thoughts for specialist librarians as they think about the future of their profession.