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It's not easy being a modern information professional is it? Information delivery media is swiftly evolving and you're facing a tough challenge in balancing reduced budgets with improved services, managing differing client resource expectations and, above all, the pressure to demonstrate the value of your function to key stakeholders. Need a hand? Ark Group's report on Adding Value in Corporate Libraries and Information Services has been specially commissioned to help you tackle these challenges head-on to ensure the continued delivery of the services that are required in a shifting information landscape. Packed with best-practice tools, guidance and insights from your peers and industry experts this invaluable handbook provides effective solutions that can be implemented immediately to add value and improve services within your organisation. These include how to: * Improve key functions for maximum performance - search and research, metadata and taxonomy, copyright and digital rights management; * Effectively demonstrate and communicate value throughout your organisation using key metrics and success factors; * Deliver visible value and cost savings through effective information centre training; * Develop the necessary skills, knowledge and ability to operate at senior level within your organisation; * Align library and information services with overall organisational strategy; * Move from competition to collaboration with other departments in the organisation; * Create a holistic information service using best-practice knowledge management tools and techniques; * Preserve, retrieve and retain digital content efficiently in the 21st Century library; * Effectively select, manage and maximise the opportunities provided by outsourcing and contract services; * Apply social media for maximum benefit; and much more - Insightful, real-life case studies that demonstrate how organisations around the world are successfully overcoming current library and information service challenges are also featured throughout the report. These include: * Cost recovery to cost prevention in a law firm library; * Communicating information value to senior executives; * Managing copyright and digital rights at the University of Reading; * RSS feeds in the ESR Christchurch Library; * Successfully outsourcing international library, information and research services for a Fortune Global 500 company; and * Creating a new library and information service at NHS North West.

Table of Contents:
Communicating value: Takes more than old-school marketing...18 The end game...19 Chapter 3: Functions - Do the job well...23 Search and research...23 Metadata and taxonomy...25 Copyright and digital rights management...27 Chapter 4: Training delivers visible value...31 Information literacy: Not just for college...32 Reasons to train...33 Cost savings...35 What is fair game for information centre training?...35 Methods...37 Mechanisms...38 Emerging trends and future opportunities...40 Chapter 5: Knowledge and information management - Expanding library services in the knowledge economy...43 Knowledge management pays the bottom line...43 Information services value delivered ...44 Self-service...45 Lessons learned...45 Communities of practice...46 Facilitated transfer of best practices...46 Approaches distilled...46 KM tools...47 KM governance...49 Evaluate and refresh...50 Top tips...51 Accomplish success through strategic KM...51 Information management: The value of the human...51 From whence comes the information?...53 Why must the beast be tamed?...54 Taming the beast and preserving the spirit...54 Chapter 6: Transform competition to strategic triumphs through collaboration...59 Identifying the competition...59 Strategic plan for triumph: Inside the army and into battle...60 Breaking down the opportunities and executing the strategy...61 Looking externally for allies and advantages...62 Collaboration: Weapon of choice...63 Chapter 7: The 21st century library - Digital collections and electronic books meet information centres...67 Digital and electronic information: The new library...67 Digital collections: From analogue to electronic...67 Born digital...71 Preserving, retrieving and retaining digital content...72 E-books...73 Challenges...76 Chapter 8: Applying social media for maximum benefit...81 Mobile devices...81 Research...82 Curation and distribution of information...83 Communication...83 Adding Value in Corporate Libraries and Information Services Collaboration...84 Knowledge management...85 Marketing...85 Getting started with social media...86 Making it work...87 Chapter 9: Outsourcing - A path to opportunity...91 Contract services: The other side of the coin...93 Opportunities and benefits in outsourcing...93 Strengthen staff...94 Strengthen alignment...94 Obstacles, risks and considerations...96 Outsourcing vs off-shoring: Clarifying the emotive issues...97 Contracting...98 Choosing and managing providers...99 Part Two: Case studies Case study 1: Cost recovery to cost prevention - Five first steps to success...105 Case study 2: When 'Believe us, it is so worth the money!' won't cut it - Communicating information value to senior executives...109 Case study 3: Managing copyright and digital rights at the University of Reading...115 Case study 4: RSS feeds in the ESR Christchurch Library...121 Case study 5: Successfully outsourcing international library, information and research services for a Global Fortune 500 company...127 Case study 6: NHS North West library information service...133 Resources...139 Index...141

About the Author :
Constance Ard offers business information and content management solutions through her consulting practice Answer Maven. Before launching the consulting practice, Constance was a practising law librarian for 12 years. She received her MSLIS from the University of Kentucky in 1995. Throughout her career, Constance has worked to develop a strong background in management and research as well as project management. She specialises in working with organisations to assess information problems, user needs and expectations and offer solutions to improve and leverage company expertise to solve those problems. This specialty includes working closely with management, end-users and information technology. Technology and information are irrevocably intertwined and, in order to meet user requirements, information and content managers must work collaboratively with IT to ensure organisations meet their business goals. Constance is expert at facilitating those relationships. Constance is preparing for 2012 speaking engagements at Enterprise Search Summit, the Association of Independent Information Professionals and the SLA Annual conference. She received the Outstanding Chapter Member Award from the Kentucky Chapter of Special Libraries Association in 2006 and the Professional Member Award in 2008. She also received the Kentucky Libraries Association Special Librarian of the Year Award in 2007.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781908640093
  • Binding: Paperback
  • ISBN-10: 190864009X
  • No of Pages: 141


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