Upcoming Events:

Kim is part of an Industry Roundtable Professional Development event hosted by the Knowledge Media Design Institute on Thursday March 4th, 4-6pm at the University of Toronto iSchool.

Kim is presenting at the Library Technology Conference in St. Paul, MN March 17-18 2010.

Registration for Computers in Libraries 2010 is now open. April 12-14, Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, VA.

Kim is presenting at IASSIST 2010: Social Data and Social Networking: Connecting Social Science Communities Across the Globe in Ithaca, NY June 1-4 2010.

Registration for SLA's Annual Conference is now open. The conference is in New Orleans, June 13-16, 2010.

KMWorld 2010 is in Washington, D.C. this year; November 16-18, 2010. The call for speakers is now open.

Salon Review: This Book is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

From Salon.com:

The author of a new book talks about the secret lives of America’s favorite — and endangered — disciplinarians.

Behold the stereotypical librarian, with her cat’s-eye glasses, bun and pantyhose — a creature whose desexualized persona and desire for us to be quiet has fueled generations of wild sexual fantasies. But [...]

Quote of the Day: Why we need libraries

“To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about as sensible as asking if roadmaps are necessary now that there are so very many roads.”

- Jon Bing, Professor of Information Technology Law, University of Oslo, Norway

A Better Way to Manage Knowledge – John Hagel III and John Seely Brown – Harvard Business Review

A Better Way to Manage Knowledge – John Hagel III and John Seely Brown – Harvard Business Review.

We give a lot of talks and presentations about the ways and places companies and their employees learn the fastest. We call these learning environments creation spaces — places where individuals and teams interact and collaborate within a [...]

Our Evanescent Culture and the Awesome Duty of Librarians

From Post Carbon Institute:

How secure is our civilization’s accumulated knowledge?

It is a question that, in a fundamental sense, transcends many life-and-death concerns (threats of sickness, natural disaster, or military invasion) that prompt us collectively to spend fortunes on insurance, health care, and weaponry. We know that we each individually will die, though we are willing [...]

KMWorld 2008: SharePoint Search in a Legal Environment

Presented by Jennifer McNenly and Matthew Frederick,
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Although this case study describes a legal environment, the learning can be applied to any environment.

Life before the FindIt! Portal:

thousands of structured and unstructured documents
no centralized enterprise search
no metadata

Step 1: Defining the Search Scopes – created four basic scopes: people, precedents and research, firm information, [...]