The Smashing Magazine blog has a wonderful posting called The Beauty of Knitting, Sewing and Crochet:
“Where does the beauty come from? It isn’t necessary to travel around the world in its most quiet places to experience it. Beauty is always near us — you just need to want to explore it. And you can of [...]
Because of a cut to the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners FY2011 Regional Library Systems budget, the six Regional Library Systems are being merged into a single entity called the Massachusetts Library System(MLS) on July 1, 2010:
From the MBLC:
“In September 2009, the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners received a mandate to reduce projected FY2011 funding [...]
OCLC has released a report called How Libraries Stack Up: 2010
“This new report examines the economic, social and cultural impact of libraries in the United States. As the current economic environment is impacting library budgets and library usage is increasing, particular attention is paid to the role that libraries play in providing assistance to job-seekers [...]
David Rothman of the Davidrothman library blog had a very good posting on March 23 called We live in the future, how computers and related technology evolved over the years:
For the whole posting:
http://davidrothman.net/2010/03/23/we-live-in-the-future/
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blogwithoutalibrary has a very good image called Cutting Libraries in a Recession is like cutting hospitals in a plague:
h/t to blogwithoutalibrary
http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/
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: Sign In Home KM Topics KM Overview Case Studies About Us Search The New Face(book of Collaboration By Carla O'Dell on April 23, 2010 Comments 3 APQC's 15 th KM conference is next week , and if the registration is any indication , knowledge management is alive and well , and travel budgets are being released from their chokeholds . This conference is always a bellwether for The Next Big Thing in . KM We'll have to wait until next week to be sure , but my sense from talking with the keynoters and presenters is that there are two hot top-of-mind topics right now . The first is how KM can help rather than simply lament today's socially networked , information-overloaded knowledge workers with their digitally induced shrinking attention spans , their iPhone BlackBerry obsessions , and their
: Sign In Home KM Topics KM Overview Case Studies About Us Search Getting Smarter About KM at GE Energy By Lauren Trees on April 13, 2010 Comments 1 I want to remind everyone that APQC's April 2010 knowledge management community call is coming up this week . The call will feature guest presenter Linda Hummel , knowledge management leader at GE Energy and her colleague Dave Cerrone . Since GE Energy's KM program was created in the second quarter of 2008 to support the company's sales and marketing team , the KM team has focused on the program's four pillars : people , process , content , and technology . Hummel and Cerrone will : describe how the foundation for the KM program was established with an emphasis on Google enterprise search , how GE Energy is taking people search to a new level
: Sign In Home KM Topics KM Overview Case Studies About Us Search Increasing the Navy's Bang for the Taxpayer's Buck By Jim Lee on April 9, 2010 Comments 2 In the interest of transparency , let me just say up front that the folks I'm helping to publicize below are clients of mine . There are two good reasons why I'm happy to help them out : 1 what they do is pretty cool , and 2 I figure that , if I want to keep them as clients , I'd better do this because they asked me . to What does Carrier Team One do They share knowledge , transfer good practices among projects , and help create a collaborative , networked environment in an otherwise very hierarchical one to improve the maintenance activities of the U.S . Navy's aircraft carrier fleet . Quiz : Without help , can you name all the
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: Sign In Home KM Topics KM Overview Case Studies About Us Search The Search for Insights in an Avalanche of Information By Gary Hoover on April 5, 2010 Comments 1 In the modern world , we are inundated with a flood of data and information . Traditional editing systems designed to help us sort through this clutter--like newspapers--are endangered and may not survive . But the increased flow of information makes it more important than ever that we learn how to convert the myriad data streams that surround us into useful knowledge and insights we can act on . I would even go so far as to say that we are seeking wisdom out of all those facts and numbers . How can we accomplish this The wise use of data depends on our ability to link it to real life , to real people and their experiences , to