"The wise learn from their own experiences but the truly intelligent will learn from someone else's!" - Benjamin Franklin. Welcome

Akbani Informatics: A full-service consultancy for training, and information management. For Information services, Research, Content management, Training, Human Resources, Helpful Advice & Related Services Visit www.akbani.info  


Friday, March 23, 2007

Sunday, March 04, 2007

Leadership Basics for Librarians and Information Professionals

A book just out in the market. A review of this may appear here, later. And, a review is scheduled to appear in Journal of Web Librarianship
Leadership Basics for Librarians and Information Professionals, by Evans G. Edward, and Patricia Layzell Ward. Scarecrow Press (2007) Description:
"With the start of the 21st Century, information services around the world are facing a host of challenges and changes unique to this era of exponential technological growth. However, this change is further compounded by the high turnover rate in senior positions. Focusing on leadership, this text--ideal for young, emerging managers and supervisors--is meant to guide future leaders in making the appropriate choices and decisions in response to and in anticipation of the competition."



See also:
  • Mentors and Mentees in Librarianship
  • Monday, February 19, 2007

    Success and Motivation: What I learned from Bobby Knight

    You said, and Im paraphrasing: "Everyone has got the will to win, its only those with the will to prepare that do win" Full article

    Tuesday, January 23, 2007

    Tuesday, December 26, 2006

    A Visible Pathfinder for Increasing Blog Traffic in 2007


    The wise learn from their own experiences but the truly intelligent will learn from someone else's!" - Benjamin Franklin.

    My 2007 resolution for return-on-investments in blogging is to have a two-way traffic. The prescription is, please:
    1. post a comment--aka, visual signature--in this blog on whatever subject (spam and phishing EXEMPTED)
    2. turn on your blog comments' button; I will reciprocate not once, but every post that you create in 2007. This is my own idea of live and let live. I do reciprocate; my 2006 ledger shows Bloggers, such as, Sukhdev Singh, K. G. Schneider, Nancy White, Nirmala Palaniappan, David Tebbutt, Peachy Limpin, Thomas Brevik, Steven Edward Streight, Neil Patel, Diane Levin, and more.


    PUNCHLINE: Increasing Blog traffic is a major concern, even for many Gurus [e.g., Adrian W Kingsley-Hughes' Three simple actions that doubled my website traffic in 30 days]
    Previous post:
  • Visualizing Comments on Blogs
  • Visualizing Traffic At My Blog Via Mapping The Pathways
  • Blog As A Teaching Tool

    Idea courtesy: Bloggers Compose Their Yearly Ledgers, By Jeralyn; and How to Pay for Blog Comments, @ usability blog of John S. Rhodes; So what'd you get? by Ryan Block


    Technorati Tags: blog comments   2007 blog   blog traffic   2007 resolution   2007 blogging     popular bloggers   popular comments   top bloggers   Reward-program   return-on-investments

  • Thursday, December 14, 2006

    Peabody Library Leadership Institute Update

    Dear Colleague,
    You are invited to apply to attend the 2007 Summer Institute for Academic LIbrary Leadership at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College. The Institute will be held from July 8-12, 2007. It focuses on the higher education context in which libraries exist. Institute faculty are leaders in the fields of higher education and
    academic librarianship. For more information and an application, go to:
    http://www.vanderbilt.edu/ppi/institutes.php?id=13
    or, go to http://www.vanderbilt.edu/ppi
    Applications received by March 1, 2007 will receive priority consideration.
    Sincerely,
    Sharon Weiner, M.L.S., AHIP
    Peabody Library Director and Academic Library Leadership Institute
    Co-Chair
    230 Appleton Place, Peabody #325
    Vanderbilt University
    Nashville, TN 37203-5721
    615.322.8096 (phone) 615.343.7923 (fax)