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Resources - It's time to embrace change. With the information sector going through upheaval, Penny Bailey reviews a title that challenges information professionals to be naturally innovative and proactive.(Industry Overview)
Managing Information Services is a book written by an information professional and a management lecturer. The title aims to provide information professionals with a balance of management and information concepts, and to present the period of change the sector is going through as positive to the careers of information professionals.
Librarian Sue Roberts and lecturer Jennifer Rowley, introduce seven classic management theories being applied to library and information science. These theories are: organisation behaviour, management versus leadership, people in organisations, marketing, quality management, finance, and strategy and planning.
It is quite astonishing how much they have packed into these 250 pages, with plenty of pointers to both printed and web resources.
I welcome the positive and assertive role that the authors champion for library and information managers - information professionals can, and should, influence their organisations and bring about change. The tone of the book is one of challenging the reader to be proactive in developing their own skills and competencies as a ...
- It's time to embrace change.(information professionals)
- Magazine article from: Information World Review Bailey, Penny July 11, 2005 700+ words
...that challenges information professionals to be naturally...aims to provide information professionals with a balance...the careers of information professionals. Librarian...and lecturer Jennifer Rowley, introduce...
- The changing roles of information professionals excerpts from an outsell, Inc....
- Magazine article from: Online Corcoran, Mary Dagar, Lynn Stratigos, Anthea March 1, 2000 700+ words
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- Outsell Releases Study of Information Professionals, Introduces Information...
- Magazine article from: Information Today July 1, 1999 700+ words
...released a study indicating that information professionals are moving up the value chain...affecting resources and budgets. "Information professionals are on a tightrope, working...of approximately 200 corporate information professionals across a wide range of industries...
- Changing Roles of Information Professionals: Choices and Implications.(insights...
- Magazine article from: Online Corcoran, Mary March 1, 2000 700+ words
...in a time of deep change for information professionals. This month, I'd like to...conducted with 200 corporate information professionals in May 1999 about those changing...simply to present data about what information professionals are doing, but rather about...
- Information professionals leading intranet development initiatives.
- Magazine article from: Online Tuchel, Gretchen November 1, 2002 700+ words
...development projects put information professionals' leadership skills...informal survey of information professionals' experience with...intranet plan. Many information professionals who are leading...
- In-house content providers: a new role for information professionals.(includes...
- Magazine article from: Searcher Funke, Susan May 1, 1998 700+ words
...challenges and opportunities for information professionals that are redefining our role...readily available. In order for information professionals to effectively do this, they...table" and the opportunities for information professionals to expand their role with these...
- The Dialog Corporation Launches Intranet Toolkit, a Groundbreaking Product That...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 8, 1999 700+ words
...groundbreaking product that empowers information professionals to design custom search interfaces...Dialog Intranet Toolkit equips information professionals to custom build Dialog search...department, and individual. Information professionals can now fully leverage their...
- Adding value, going global, and serving smaller clients; four information...
- Magazine article from: Information Outlook June 1, 2009 700+ words
...economic sector. But even as information professionals struggle to adapt to the downturn...Information Outlook asked four information professionals to share their views on (a...offer plenty of evidence that information professionals can not only survive but thrive...
