Denise Carter, AIIP member, recently stepped into managing the world’s longest running survey in the Business Information and Knowledge Management sector.
The Business Information Survey has been conducted annually since 1991 by Business Information Review. In 2016 in-depth telephone interviews were conducted with senior information managers in the financial, legal, pharmaceutical, science & technical, and telecommunications sectors.
As ever, library innovation conference Internet Librarian International (ILI) 2016 – 18 & 19 October, London – is all about responding to challenge through innovation, with the emphasis on sharing, learning and evolution.
This year’s conference themes have been steered by a panel of previous delegates, with two ‘big questions’ emerging and addressed through some 60 presentations by experts from around the world: how do info pros demonstrate the importance of their role and services; and how do they compete with Google? These broad challenges are explored in depth next month, with AIIP members benefiting from a 25% discount on the full conference fee.
Self-confidence is the Key to Success for Self-employed People. Â AIIP member Cathy Chiba from Vancouver, British Columbia is the author of an article published in the Summer 2016 issue of Healthy Intent featuring 3 keys to believing in yourself.
Laura Young, an AIIP member, and Bizologie partners Lindsey Schell and April Kessler have turned former careers as librarians into a growing new venture. The partners are also active in SCIP and SLA, as well as the Texas Library Association.
Please take a minute to check out their business profiles in our directory and see how they can potentially help you, your organization or business today. Among them are backgrounds as an organizational psychologist,knowledge manager, private investigators, social science and English teachers, a Ford Fellow in Journalism, a legal researcher/law librarian, genealogists, project managers, Certified Knowledge Managers, librarians and technical writers.
See the wide range of skills our info pro colleagues have – check out their websites and click their name to see the AIIP Business Directory profiles of our newest Full Members!
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Computers in Libraries from our Partner InfoToday – March 2016
A number of AIIP members attended #CILDC and presented to their library, education, technology and info pro peers. There were also keynotes and featured presentations by information industry luminaries who have also presented at AIIP events or are preparing to do so in the very near future.
For consultants and independent info pros, public speaking can be an excellent way to showcase our expertise, skills and share our knowledge. It’s also a tried and true marketing tool to build our networks and raise visibility among our target client base. But public speaking can be intimidating and many people shy away from it because of anxiety or uncertainty.
When you own a business, you are faced with tons of decisions every day. Big or small, those decisions add up. Here’s some advice to help take the stress out of your decision-making process.
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