Comments on: What are those corporate librarians up to?

By: KM as a Managed Service « KM Apprentice

KM as a Managed Service « KM Apprentice — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:13:04 +0000

[...] Offering KM as a service (KMaS anyone?) would allow companies to track time, expenses, output and assign business value to knowledge management. For example, your local librarian is essentially a KMaS model. In fact corporate librarians and knowledge managers are one and the same. See Michael Stephens interview with Boeing Librarians. [...]

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By: Suresh D Nair

Suresh D Nair — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:43:29 +0000

Eric, thank you for the response. What I have mentioned here was the general trend in our profession. We talk too much – Even while our schooling days, we were taught that Libraries are the heart of any academic organisation – but we know where we stand. Nice work is appreciated always – but some how from my experience, I feel it doesn’t happen so in our field.
Yesterday, I was attending a business excellence meeting – one of the participants commented that we at service point should provide what our users want – and also opined that it’s because users’ requirement is not met – he does not frequently come back. One thing I have noticed, in cases where one has support from the higher-ups, they are perceived as good professionals – others whatever great job they do – it doesn’t get the required recognition.
As I told earlier, there are some elements in every organisation, they try to find some negative side of it. Don’t feel that I am scribbling this out of frustration.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:43:48 +0000

I agree fully with what Suresh says. It is difficult to get people involved in these technologies, but once a user sees how great that library services can be, we usually have a fan for life.

In doing a recent data mining project, I frequently saw our patrons refer to us using such terms as “awesome”, “super heroes”, and “the best resource in the whole organization”.

It is my sense that, despite the changing landscape of information and librarianship, if we stay ahead of the curve, introduce users to new technologies, and continue to do what we do well, we will always have a place in society.

By: Getting Up-to-Date With Corporate Librarianship…09.22.08 « The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian’s Weblog

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:15:19 +0000

[...] Corporate Librarianship…09.22.08 22 09 2008 Micheal Stephens on Tame the Web posted [http://tametheweb.com/2008/09/20/corporatelibrarians/] the following interesting bit about “corporate librarians.” It is a long post but [...]

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:38:49 +0000

Eric is a coworker of mine, and you can’t imagine how excellent it feels to be featured on this blog! I’ve included many of your articles on my daily digest (yes I’m the one responsible for it at Boeing) and I’m sure this one will be a popular addition. Thank you so much for your interest!

By: Suresh D Nair

Suresh D Nair — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:47:58 +0000

First of all, Eric Bryan and his team, need to be thanked for doing such a great job. Most of us have been doing all these – but are there any real takers or appreciators.
A professional gets into a job, with lot of new ideas and expectation, The urge to do something dies down as soon as he find that there not many real users. And most of our people seems to look like a bunch of dull lot. Most of the time, who do not visit Libraries and take any service from Library, comment about Libraries in negative.
We need to run a library like a business enterprise – for which big cash rich organisations, to which libraries are attached, should support full throttle. This is an age when people say Information and knowledge are power …