Many of us think of the Library of Congress when we think of national treasures in print and digital format. In addition to the Library of Congress, the United States has two other national libraries, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Agricultural Library (NAL). I will explore NLM in this post and [...]
“Information has gone from scarce to superabundant: that brings huge new benefits, says Kenneth Cukier (interviewed here)—but also big headaches.” The Economist print edition, Feb 25th 2010,
In my consulting work, my clients are wrestling with the terabytes of data they produce. Finding information that already exists in an organization can be the most frustrating, time-consuming [...]
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Last night I presented to about 30 of my colleagues about Mining Enterprise Business Intelligence–All the World’s a Stage: Another Role for Info Pros. You can view the PDF of the slidedeck at:http://www.information-edge.com/presentations.php
Every organization can benefit from integrating its information silos and making information findable for staff to utilize in their work. Rather than [...]
I just finished reading Here comes everybody: the power of organizing without organizations by Clay Shirkey (2008). A good read on how the internet and social networking tools have changed the way we live and work. Here is a good quote from pp. 303-4: “I’m old enough [he was born before 1980] to know a [...]
Deb Hunt, Principal at Information Edge, and a member of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Board of Directors, was honored by Information World Review (IWR) magazine for her work on behalf of SLA to spearhead and implement the innovative “23 Things” program.
23 Things is a free, members-only, self-directed training program to help SLA members [...]
How Much Information? 2009 Report on American Consumers
In 2008, Americans consumed information for about 1.3 trillion hours, an average of almost 12 hours per day. Consumption totaled 3.6 zettabytes and 10,845 trillion words, corresponding to 100,500 words and 34 gigabytes for an average person on an average day.
Over the past three years, the McKinsey Quarterly has tracked the rising adoption of Web 2.0 technologies, as well as the ways organizations are using them. This year, they sought to get a clear idea of whether companies are deriving measurable business benefits from their investments in the Web.
Last night, I was part of a panel that presented to a group of SLA members from the Sacramento area. The topic was Social Media at a Library Near You. The presenters included a law librarian, academic librarian, special librarian and an independent information professional (me). We covered blogging, Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, LinkedIn and SLA’s [...]
On Wednesday evening, I attended a meeting of the San Francisco Bay Region Chapter of SLA to hear Ward Bushee, Executive Vice President and Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, speak about the state of the news media. He spoke frankly about how the last several years have been tumultuous as advertisers have been diversifying [...]
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