Welcome to Guy St. Clair’s Knowledge Services Newsletter for June 2011. This is a free e-mail based summary of some of the information and knowledge we find ourselves thinking about in our work with KM, knowledge services, and knowledge strategy. Feel free to copy, reprint or forward all or part of this newsletter to friends, colleagues or customers, so long as any use is not for resale or profit and I am attributed. And if you have any queries please post a comment. You can see the newsletter by clicking here. – Guy St. Clair
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 Library of The New York Public Library in New York, NY. St. Clair is President and Consulting Specialist at SMR International in New York. Induction into SLA’s Hall of Fame recognizes an individual’s service and contribution to the Association and to specialized librarianship, and the professional…
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GRATITUDE – CONFIDENCE – HOPE The words come from Stephen Kizza, a librarian with the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources in Kampala, Uganda. In his correspondence and writings, Kizza signs off with a phrase that is both poignant and meaningful to strategic knowledge professionals, particularly those dealing with Africa and KM/knowledge services in the research and business communities of the nations of Africa: ”Look backwards with gratitude, upward with confidence, forward with hope.” Could there be any stronger motivation for us? Could there be any better way to describe our aspirations for our work in Africa? At the recent Special…
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