Special Libraries articles from March 1990

Special Libraries archives from March 1990

The Special Librarian as a Front Runner: Running Fast, Running Hard, Running Ahead
March 22, 1990... The Special Librarian as a Front Runner: Running Fast, Running Hard, Running Ahead SLA members are the leaders in the library and information management profession, the best and the brightest. They work in a field that is changing rapidly and...

Valuing Corporate Libraries: A Senior Management Survey
March 22, 1990... Valuing Corporate Libraries: A Senior Management Survey Background and Methodology The Special Libraries Association, in a report from its Task Force on the Value of the Information Professional, highlighted a need for additional research...

Strategies for Success (or Opportunities Galore)
March 22, 1990... Strategies for Success (or Opportunities Galore) In 1986, Frank Spaulding, then president of the Special Libraries Association, appointed a Presidential Task Force on the Value of the Information Professional. The Task Force was charged with...

Power to the Information Professionals
March 22, 1990... Power to the Information Professionals It is ironic that a profession whose strength and viability depend on the realization that information is power finds itself less than powerful and, therefore, vitally concerned with the issues of...

Leadership Can Be Learned
March 22, 1990... Leadership Can Be Learned In his recent book, On Leadership, John Gardner could easily have been talking directly to all of us, information professionals. Although the information profession is faced with threatening problems, it doesn't seem...

Personal/career Strategic Plan or Making Things Happen through Self-Leadership
March 22, 1990... Personal/Career Strategic Plan or Making Things Happen through Self-Leadership At some point in your life, it is vital to take a hard, cold, close look at where and what you are compared to where you thought you would be and what you have...

Favorite Readings of SLA Leaders
March 22, 1990... Favorite Readings of Some SLA Leaders A casual survey of the professional reading preferences of several SLA leaders netted an interesting potpourri. It is included here as an incentive for each of you to create your own list of personally...

Joint Conference in New Zealand: An Experience to Treasure
March 22, 1990... Joint Conference in New Zealand: An Experience to Treasure The November/December 1988 issue of the MLA News included a call for papers for the Joint Conference, Health Library Sections, Australian Library and Information Association and New...

How to Attract Ethnic Minorities to the Profession
March 22, 1990... How to Attract Ethnic Minorities to the Profession In September 1988, I was appointed assistant dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College. Responsibilities for this office are recruitment, placement, and...

A Technological Assessment of the SLA Membership: Summary Report
March 22, 1990... A Technological Assessment of the SLA Membership: Summary Report Background In the summer of 1989, SLA undertook a study to assess the use and impact of technology on its membership. The goal of the study was three-fold: * Determine...

Pittsburgh: An Unparalleled City
March 22, 1990... Pittsburgh: An Unparalleled City June 9-14 marks the 81st Annual Conference of the Special Libraries Association, to take place in Pittsburgh, PA. Over 5,000 information professionals--like you--are expected to attend the hundreds of...

Information Policies; Strategies for the Future
March 22, 1990... Information Policies: Strategies for the Future The issue of formulating a national information policy for the United States, was discussed in the milestone 1976 report, "National Information Policy," authored by the domestic Council Committee...

The President's Task Force on the Value of the Information Professional
March 22, 1990... The President's Task Force on the Value of the Information Professional An Update The report of the President's Task Force on the Value of the Informational professional, published in June 1987 by SLA, was so popular that it is now...

Librarians in Search of Science and Identity: The Elusive Profession.
March 22, 1990... Librarians in Search of Science and Identity: The Elusive Profession As a professional librarian for close to half a century, I found Mr. Bennett's thesis of professional librarians covered a great deal of the public's lack of knowledge of...

Leadership in the Library/Information Profession.
March 22, 1990... Leadership in the Library/Information Profession This small volume is good proof of the old adage that everyone knows a leader when they see one, but no one can say what makes a leader. The topic is explored on a variety of fronts; by the...

Descriptive Statistical Techniques for Librarians.
March 22, 1990... Descriptive Statistical Techniques for Librarians Most special libraries are required to keep statistical data for management as well as for comparative studies. In this volume the author stresses the need to communicate more effectively...

Personal Needs and Changing Reference Service.
March 22, 1990... Personnel Needs and Changing Reference Service In this short volume, the author intends to provide a practical source of information for the improvement of reference services. Her premise for offering such a book is that technology has...

Acquisition Management and Collection Development in Libraries.
March 22, 1990... Acquisition Management and Collection Development in Libraries Acquisition Management and Collection Development in Libraries is the second edition of a work first produced in 1984 by Rose Mary Magrill and Doralyn Hickey. Now Magrill and...

E Mail for Libraries.
March 22, 1990... E Mail for Libraries While electronic mail services have been available in one form or another for many years, they have become significantly more accessible as a result of the microcomputer revolution. The enormous array of such services...

The Information Edge.
March 22, 1990... The Information Edge New librarians will need to read this book to be convinced of the value of end-user computing, particularly for such common applications as wordprocessing, database searching, electronic mail, and spreadsheets. What...

International Librarianship.
March 22, 1990... International Librarianship This volume is a collection of 18 papers and addresses relating to the theme of international librarianship given by K.C. Harrison over the years 1975 to 1988. An introductory essay provides the framework for...

Trends in Urban Library Management.
March 22, 1990... Trends in Urban Library Management This volume contains the proceedings of an Urban Library Institute which took place in October 1988 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The Institute brought together middle and senior level...

Holdlist. (evaluation)
March 22, 1990... Holdlist With an easy-to-follow user's guide and main menu, anyone can start a serials holdings list for their library. Titles can be added, corrected, or deleted by main menu selection. Separate files can be made for newspapers,...

RLibrary/Cards
March 22, 1990... RLibrary/Cards. RACHELS, 111 Innsbruck Drive, Clayton, NC, 27520; (919)553-5511. $139; demo disks are $5. RLibary/Cards is a Macintosh-based card catalog production and printing software package. The user catalogs materials according to the...