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Editor's View.
Leadership that transforms
It was great to meet up with Linda Stoddart at the UN HQ last month in Manhattan. The library is embarking on an ambitious programme to modernise and overhaul its services, transforming the way that its clientele perceives it and how they use the resources it delivers.
No easy task, and one that many library managers in the UK are now grappling with (Cilip's new president, Debby Shorley, profiled in this issue, is another striking example of someone who has seen the future and embraced its imperatives).
Stoddart's approach, dictated by the nature of the organisation, is one of careful, determined advance. With a user base that is so diverse (from the richly resourced techno-savvy West, to the poorest of nations struggling with more mundane realities - you can't eat "knowledge management"), she has a lot to contend with.
Add to that the conservative forces of resistance you will always encounter in a well-established bureaucratic ...
- CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals...
- Magazine article from: Computers in Libraries June 1, 2005 700+ words
CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (U.K.) announced that Debby Shorley was invested as the fourth president of CILIP by the outgoing president, Margaret Haines. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Currently...
- Awards Evening 2005 - Winners take all.(International Information Industry...
- Magazine article from: Information World Review January 17, 2006 700+ words
...evening. PROJECT AWARD Innovation in Knowledge Management Linda Stoddart, director of the UN Library in New York, presented the...AWARD Cilip/Online Information Personal Development Award Debby Shorley, president of Cilip, presented the award to Jessica Warner...
- Online Information's wrap-up session. (Report from the Field).
- Magazine article from: Information Today Ashling, Jim February 1, 2003 700+ words
...Howard McQueen, CEO of McQueen Consulting; Gwenda Sippings, director of information resources at UK Inland Revenue; Linda Stoddart, director of the International Labour Office's Bureau of Information Services; and Cynthia Hill, president-elect...
- Where Poppies Grow: A World War I Companion. (Non-Fiction: Preschool - Grade...
- Magazine article from: Resource Links Pennell, Victoria February 1, 2002 700+ words
GRANFIELD, Linda Stoddart, 2001. 48p. Illus. Gr. 4 up. 0-7737-33191. Hdbk. $24.95 Linda Granfield, recent winner of the Vicky Metcalf Award...
- Online information 2004.(Conference Report)
- Newspaper article from: Business Information Alert James, Sylvia November 1, 2004 700+ words
...This track continued with presentations describing specific experiences from the NGO and financial services sectors. Linda Stoddart, of the UN Library in New York, talked on using information in decision-making, and Veronica Kennard of N.M Rothschild...
- UN Library prepares for change.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire June 10, 2005 700+ words
...libraries to move from independent repositories to take up a new role as a network of knowledge-sharing communities". Linda Stoddart, head of knowledge management at the Dag Hammarskjold Library, told IWR: "It's about moving from collections to connections...
Source: HighBeam Research, Editor's View.