Subscription Update - What's New and What's Coming
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By Catherine Dhanjal

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Find out about the latest articles from our Research Focus, “Source Expertise - What It Means in a Google World”, including subjects such as big data and query handling services, and take a look at our upcoming webinars and Community sessions.

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Read the latest articles from our current Research Focus, "Source Expertise - What It Means in a Google World", including subjects such as big data and query handling services.

As this Research Focus continues, we've published articles and blogs on:

• "Balancing Strategy and Specialism" where Lynn Strand highlights some of Jinfo's recent content and how it demonstrates that being strategic and being a specialist can be an important part of the information professional's skill set

• "Getting More Value from Your Query Handling Services" which reports from a recent Jinfo Community session on the subject of query handling and what information services teams can learn from those who do it most successfully

• "Information Professionals Need to Know About Big Data" which explains how to identify big data projects, why big data is growing, and explains the issues that exist within big data projects today.

Other articles and reviews published since our last Subscription Update include:

• "Cultivating Interdepartmental Relationships Through Research and Communication" - a recent Community session looked at why information services should seek to cultivate relationships with IT, procurement, legal and HR and discussed steps that can be taken to nurture them.

We've also published:

• Subscription Update for Information Services Management

Forthcoming webinars:

• On 30th June join us for "Why We Keep Talking About The News", where we'll be reflecting on why current awareness remains such an opaque topic for so many

• On 19th July we'll be looking at content platforms and how they perform in real-life in "The State of the Industry for Content Platforms"

• On 13th September we'll address "Understanding the Full Scope of Sources for Current Awareness" where we take a look at what constitutes a "source", to aid information professionals in the continuing evolution of their current awareness approach.

View the full list of upcoming webinars.

Community

Forthcoming Community sessions, join us for these online teleconferences:

• In "Elements of a Current Awareness Needs Assessment", on your choice of 12th and 14th July, we'll be looking at the current awareness needs of your organisation.

View the full list of upcoming Community sessions.

Consulting

Several information centres have taken advantage of Jinfo's ability to provide benchmarking on subjects like the visibility and value of their source expertise and their progress on conducting a fresh needs assessment for current awareness.

The process involves a 15 minute telephone interview on the subject, following which Jinfo Research provides a summary report with recommendations.

Following receipt of our report, one customer commented, "This is very, very valuable to us. We have planned to take a strategic look at our position after the holidays and this is good input to start with."

Learn more about Jinfo's Consulting services, and request your own intake interview.

We publish research-based insights, facilitate peer-to-peer discussions on them, and offer consulting services to tailor those insights to your needs. Find the right Jinfo Subscription level to meet your needs.

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