Best Practices 2010: The New Face of Value. is now available in a PDF version. Best Practices is a collaborative document that is put out annually on a specific topic of interest to government libraries and includes content submitted by government librarians and community leaders with an interest in government libraries. The 2010 edition includes over 70 articles and other submissions provided by more than 60 contributors from librarians in government agencies, courts, and the military, as well as from professional association leaders, LexisNexis Consultants, and more. As the editor of Best Practices for Government Libraries, I want to thank the contributors for sharing their knowledge, experience, and thoughtful perspectives in this year’s Best Practices.
Articles include:
VALUE: DEVELOPING IT
- 7 Best Practices for Creating and Sustaining Value the Peter Drucker Way
Bruce Rosenstein, Author, Living in More Than One World: How Peter Drucker’s Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life. - Parsing Digital Value in an Academic Library
Edwin B. Burgess, Director, Combines Arms Research Library, Fort Leavenworth, and Deborah E. B. Keller, Reference Librarian, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Government Info Pro Podcast Episode 11: Digital Asset Management
- Building the Pandemic Influenza Digital Archive (PIDA) at the National Institutes of Health Library
James King, Information Architect, National Institutes of Health Library, Office of Research Services, Bethesda, MD - The Value of a Library Advisory Board in a Research Library
Rosa Liu, Group Leader, Research Library and Information Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology - Strategic Planning and the Value of Libraries
Ellen Ensel, Director of Knowledge Management and Library Services, U. S. Institute of Peace - Creators of the Future
Suzanne Morrison, Branch Librarian, U.S. Courts Library 8th Circuit - Who are You?: Creating a Value Preposition for Librarians in a Tough Economy
Jennifer Klang, Head of Reference Services and Deputy Project Manager, Department of the Interior Library - Value and Targeted Education: Some Suggestions on Key Learning Areas for the Modern Librarian
Laura Soto-Barra, Senior Librarian, National Public Radio - Develop, Deliver, and Demonstrate…but Listen First
Jake Parcell, Federal Information Specialist, Office of Citizen Services and Communications, U.S. General Services Administration - Government Info Pro Podcast Episode 9: Gov Gab Interview
- The Value of Lessons Learned
Nancy M. Dixon, Principal Researcher, Common Knowledge Associates - Learning on Twitter
Marie Kaddell, Senior Information Professional Consultant, LexisNexis - Right on Target
Elizabeth Cavendish, Librarian Relations Consultant, LexisNexis - Legal News Daily Podcast
- SLA Division of Government Information on LinkedIn
VALUE: DELIVERING IT
- Authenticity, Authority, Accuracy, and Accessibility
Roberta I. Shaffer, Law Librarian of Congress, Law Library of Congress - A Lean (and Possibly Mean) Definition of Value
Deborah E. B. Keller, Reference Librarian, Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activity Library, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Expanding Library Service
Ned Wolff, Supervisory Librarian, Patrick Henry Library; Janet Oberla, Law Librarian and Webmaster; Derek Jones, Reference Librarian; Paul Cantwell, Systems Librarian; U.S. Department of Justice - SharePoint as a Library Management Information System
Lorette S.J. Weldon, Research Director, Weldon Researchers - Answering the Call
Sabah Eltareb, Division Chair 2010, SLA Government Information Division; Assistant Director, California Research Bureau, California State Library - SLA Division of Government Information Membership Flier
- Corporate Memory 2.0
Lisa Gaddy, 2010 Chair, Intelligence Community Librarians’ Consortium - Swimming in the Government Sea: Reference Work at the National Library of Education
Stacie Marinelli, National Library of Education, U.S. Department of Education - Value 2.0
Ken Wheaton, Web Services Librarian, Alaska State Court System Law Library - Showcasing the Value of the Library Through Social Media
Christine Sellers, Legal Reference Librarian, and Andrew Weber, Senior Legal Information Analyst, Law Library of Congress - Virtual Reference, Real Tools
Biblio Latte, Reference Librarian Volunteer, Alliance Virtual Library, Information Island International, Second Life - The 2010 Federal Law Librarians’ Conference
Jennifer L. McMahan, Supervisory Librarian, and Mariana Long, Reference Librarian, U.S. Department of Justice - Federal Law Librarians Caucus Informational Flier
Submitted by Jennifer L. McMahan, Supervisory Librarian, U.S. Department of Justice - The Value of Professional Associations
Chris Vestal, Supervisory Patent Researcher, ASRC Management Services - How Tough Time Can Energize the Profession
Paul Henriques, Research Specialist, The Association for Manufacturing Technology - Keep Current with SLA Government Information Division’s News Feed
VALUE: DEMONSTRATING IT
- Introduction to the Return on Investment Analysis
Karen Jemison, Library Manager, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto CA; Edward J. Poletti, MLS, AHIP, Chief, Learning Resources, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, Little Rock, AR; Janet M. Schneider, MA, AHIP, Chief of Library Service, James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital, Tampa FL; Nancy A. Clark, Director, Library Network Office, Department of Veterans Affairs - Knowledge Management 2.0: How a SharePoint Blog Motivated Librarians to Share Knowledge and Helped Streamline Weekly Reporting
Anne Myers, Research & Reference Librarian, National Reconnaissance Office - The Value Proposition of Embedded Librarianship
David Shumaker, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Science, Catholic University of America - Rethinking Value: How Embedded Roles Makes Us Valuable
Mary Talley, Co-author of the SLA Funded Research Project: Models of Embedded Librarianship, 2009 - Roving Reference
Laurie Ann Lakatosh, Reference Librarian, Center for Naval Analyses - Advocacy, Competence, and Service: Experiences in Librarianship
David E. McBee, Electronic Resources Librarian, Research Library, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System - The NIH Library’s Information Commons – Turning Less into More
James King, Mary Hash, Bradley Otterson & Ben Hope, National Institutes of Health Library, Office of Research Services, Bethesda, MD - The Building of a New Corporate Library Intranet Page
Judith M. Weiss, Library Manager, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation - How a New Business/Self-Development Book Had Its Genesis in a Library School Class
Bruce Rosenstein, Author, Living in More Than One World: How Peter Drucker’s Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life - Demonstrating YOUR Value 2.0
Deb Hunt, Principal, Information Edge - More Nancy Drew than Marian the Librarian
Jennifer L. McMahan, Supervisory Librarian, U.S. Department of Justice - Librarians and the Art of Being Cool
Janice Fridie, Librarian, U.S. Department of Justice - Bragging Is No Longer Optional
Julie Webster-Matthews, Librarian Relations Consultant, LexisNexis - Government Info Pro Podcast Episode 10: Change: Managing it, Surviving it, Thriving on it
- Management versus Leadership
Gayle Lynn-Nelson, Senior Librarian Relations Consultant, LexisNexis - SLA 2009: Competitive Intelligence and Government
Marie Kaddell, Senior Information Professional Consultant, LexisNexis
VALUE: SOMETHING EXTRA
- Value Add 2.0+ ~ Take Charge of Your Future
Karen Huffman, Senior Application & Database Administrator, National Geographic and Chair, SLA Knowledge Management Division - Positioning Yourself for Value – High and to the Right
Cindy Romaine, SLA President-Elect - The Value of the Collaborative Writing Experience
Pamela Huffman, Library Technician, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit - Career Interrupted: Demonstrating Something Perhaps Other than Value to a Young Law Librarian in Afghanistan
Andrea Muto, formerly Senior Legal Publishing Advisor, Afghanistan Rule of Law Project (USAID-funded) - Government Info Pro Podcast Episode 10: Afghanistan Rule of Law Project
- Women, Literacy, and Empowerment
Priscilla Lujan, Head Librarian, Foreign Service Institute - The Value of Librarians
Robert A. Farina, Director, Trademark Law Library, USPTO - The Hidden Value of the Listserv
Maria Kreiser, MLIS - What I Learned About Value from Superheroes
Diane M. Falk, M.L.S, Freelance Research Writer and Editor - DOI Library Open House Flier
Submitted by George Franchois, Coordinator of Library Services, U.S. Department of the Interior Library - DOI Part Ranger Speaker Series Fliers: Fort Hunt Park, Theodore Roosevelt Island
Submitted by George Franchois, Coordinator of Library Services, U.S. Department of the Interior Library - DOI Library Training Flier: Federal Legislative History Research Using Library Resources
Submitted by George Franchois, Coordinator of Library Services, U.S. Department of the Interior Library - “It’s Not My Fault … My Social Networking Made Me Do It …”
Rhonda Keaton, Librarian Relations Consultant, LexisNexis - Five to Follow on Twitter
Marie Kaddell, Senior Information Professional Consultant, LexisNexis - IL2009: Tough Times, What Ifs, and Rock ‘n Roll
Marie Kaddell, Senior Information Professional Consultant, LexisNexis - IL2009: Going Mobile, Conversation Portraits, and Invaluable Experiences
Marie Kaddell, Senior Information Professional Consultant, LexisNexis - IL2009: Bit Rot, Zombies, and Angry Patrons
Marie Kaddell, Senior Information Professional Consultant, LexisNexis - SLA 2009: Unconference on Managing Change
Marie Kaddell, Senior Information Professional Consultant, LexisNexis - ALA Federal and Armed Forces Librarian Round Table (FALFLRT) Flier
- Learning in the Workplace: The Wisdom of Colleagues
By Marie Kaddell, Senior Information Professional Consultant, LexisNexis
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