When I saw this Pew Internet report about how people use the Internet to find science news in Garrett’s weekly e-mail, I knew I had to flag it. The majority of the time I spend on one single task is working on a Web site about research at the university. We’re always thinking about how […]
“Newspaper librarians are now more involved in online research and training than archiving, writes Richard Nelsson, looking how the role at the Guardian has evolved from filing cuttings to direct support
for journalists filing stories.”
http://www.cilip.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/C6AB98A3-364D-4F24-8051-21CF640202C1/0/Nelsson.pdf
This was mentioned on Peter Scott’s Library Blog a few weeks ago, but I haven’t had the time
to post it.
http://xrefer.blogspot.com/
So, yeah, so a lot of us collide with the end of the year like it’s a brick wall of all the things we meant to do this year and find ourselves pushing into the next year. So we ponder time management this time of year. I crossed some major things off my list of […]
Harvard Business School’s publication Working Knowledge has a discussion about annual performance reviews. The initial short article mentions GE’s system of ranking employees, then asks some questions. The 93 comments provide a range of experiences with reviews.
I have been in multiple places on the performance review scale. I’ve worked for a manager who gave very […]
According to a bit on LISNews and The Washington Post, H. Donald Wilson, the first president of Mead Data Central, died November 12. During Wilson’s presidency, the company launched LexisNexis to news libraries and law firms.
From the Post:
"Mr. Wilson started by developing a business plan for an engineer’s invention of how to better search text […]
Dow Jones is buying Reuters’ half of the news database Factiva, a leading news database. Many news organizations sell their content to Factiva. Many libraries subscribe to the database. Since 1999, Dow Jones and Reuters have collaborated on the database.
The American Journalism Review has a bit on news researchers. John Maines, whom I talked to in the News Division suite of the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference, describes being a news researcher like being a bombardier or navigator because we’re in the background, directing people, and contributing in our own specialized way to make […]
The Washington Post has a bit about their news researchers showing how they actively contribute to the entire news organization and not only increase what the organization can do, but the quality, too. One of the anecdotes shows the value of backgrounding everyone interviewed for articles. Another mentions the work of Derek Willis, an admired […]
Today’s Boston Herald has a brief article suggesting we keep a file proving we do good work. The reasoning is that when we’re being fired, we can show it to whomever is making the decision and attempt to save our … jobs. I learned in grad school about keeping a portfolio to illustrate things we […]
The spring issue of News Library News, the official newsletter of the Special Libraries Association News Division, is available. Highlights include some articles about Baltimore, the location of the 2006 SLA Annual Conference, a profile of The Baltimore Sun, a few articles about XML feeds, a recap of Gary Price’s visit to Boston, and the […]