By Phyllis Smith The AIIP Awards Committee, chaired by Arthur Weiss with Michele Bate and Tom Wolff as judges, manages the nominations and the selection of the Sue Rugge and Pam Wegmann Award winners. Our president, Judith Binder, recommended the recipient of the Marilyn M. Levine AIIP President’s Award. In memory of the award’s first… Read More »
Author Archive for AIIP – Page 18
By Kelly Schrank, Bookworm Editing Services LLC As a new solopreneur (three months into my second year), I am still trying to figure out how to find clients. I’ve done many of the things everyone tells you to do: I let everyone know I started my business; I got a previous employer as my first… Read More »
By Penny Crossland As I sit at my desk preparing to Skype a client with whom I was due to meet today in central London, but who cancelled due to the bizarre Covid-19 reality we are currently facing, I realize how fortunate independent workers are to be able to carry on their business regardless of… Read More »
by Mary Ellen Bates, Bates Information Service One of the hardest shifts that many new independent information professionals face is changing their perspective of where their value lies and how their market sees the world. When we are surrounded by examples of the low-pay gig economy – Uber and Lyft, Fiverr and UpWork, DoorDash, and… Read More »
By Margot Note This post is a continuation of an earlier post on digital preservation fundamentals. Two fundamental digital preservation strategies are refreshment and migration. These strategies are designed to preserve the integrity of digital items and to enable you to retrieve, display, and use them despite changing technology. Refreshing involves moving files from one… Read More »
by Carrie Hunsucker AIIP-L, AIIP’s active, private discussion list, is one of AIIP’s premier benefits and ways of connecting member-to-member. In this forum, we share tips for working on and in our businesses, including marketing, product development, technology, and much more. Following is a summary of one of the hot topics recently discussed on AIIP-L.… Read More »
By Birgit Bauer Once again, several hundred librarians and information professionals from about 30 countries from all over the world met at the 2019 Internet Librarian International (ILI) conference in London on October 15th and 16th. More than 60 lectures and case studies, interactive sessions, and social events provided an overview of current developments and… Read More »
Addressing AIIP Virtual Events and Collective Impact by Liz McLean After a year as a Virtual Events volunteer for AIIP, I’d love to share with you some of the most remarkable realizations that have come from our informal Info Pro Cafés. Never been to an Info Pro Café? If you love to learn, want to… Read More »
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