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FreePint Newsletter No.353
21st June 2012
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Welcome
By Michelle Manafy
 Welcome to this issue of the FreePint Newsletter, which provides a particularly insightful take on how information drives innovation. To wit, the issue also includes some essential resources for biopharma research. Our contributors take a fresh look at the value of information audits to help you ensure - as is ever our goal here at FreePint - that you make the most of your information investments.
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Michelle Manafy
Editor-in-Chief, FreePint
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My Favourite Tipples
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 By Carolyn J. Sosnowski
I am always looking for ways to learn more or improve what I do. I can't always sit down with a book, but these sites offer ideas, insight and inspiration - with just a little bit of time commitment.
- HBR Blog Network: I find such value in these timely posts, which are written by a variety of business leaders. The posts are short, and can be read fairly quickly, but also refer to related resources if you want to explore the topic further. Find out about trends, best practises, and recent research in marketing, business practise, leadership, customer service. No matter what your industry, you'll find some valuable takeaways. Subscribe by RSS or e-mail.
- Daily Infographic: No subject is off-limits for an infographic. Read about health-related topics, e-books, the law, cats, social networking, and the economy. Not only are these infographics informational, but they are a source of great concept and design inspiration for infographics of your own. Have you thought about using the infographic format to share the top ten reasons your clients should use your info centre? Or to target market your services? Or to present research findings?
- Information Wants to Be Free: I have been reading this blog for several years, and I am never disappointed. Meredith Farkas thoughtfully writes about many of the things we are all thinking about priorities, struggles with administration, and challenges in designing and maintaining library services. I appreciate her candour and willingness to share what she's learned, resources and tools she finds valuable, and processes she has developed. Although she many times speaks about the academic library experience, there are lessons here for all types of info pros.
- iLibrarian: I love lists: top ten best of this, seven reasons to do that. They are easy to skim and concisely organise the presented information. Ellyssa Kroski rounds up lists of tips, strategies, and resources so you don't have to. Learn about social networking tools, sites, apps, library issues.
- Roger Ebert's Journal: Yes, Roger Ebert is a film critic, but his blog is so much more than about film. He eloquently writes about books, people, culture, music, life and even death. Roger has always been an interesting writer, but his inability to speak due to cancer surgery, I think, has made him an even more keen observer of what it means to be human, and how life is so interesting and multi-layered and we should acknowledge that. Embrace it. Follow Roger on Twitter: @ebertchicago.
Carolyn J. Sosnowski is the Director of Education and Information Services at the Special Libraries Association. She began at SLA as an information specialist, conducting research for staff and assisting members with requests for information on topics such as the value proposition, salary benchmarks, and strategic planning. Currently, her primary role is planning and executing professional development programming for information professionals through SLA's Click University.
Carolyn develops and produces several webinars each year, administers the increasingly popular copyright and knowledge management certificate programmes, and is the content manager for SLA's annual conference. She is a member of SLA's Information Ethics Advisory Council, which in 2010 produced professional ethics guidelines for SLA members, and is also part of the task force that is updating SLA's competencies for information professionals. Prior to her joining SLA in 2003, Carolyn worked in both for-profit and non-profit organisations, including Medco, Mercer, the Corporate Executive Board, and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, in a variety of information management roles. Follow her on Twitter.
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- Driving innovation with information by Melanie Browne
Information sharing and information services should spark innovative ideas. Librarians and information professionals need to be entrepreneurial change catalysts. They can do this by providing information services that are creative and encourage innovation within organisations and help work around the challenges that may derail success. Full article »
- Essential resources for competitive intelligence research in biopharma by Yulia Aspinall
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The provision of information services has been evolving for a good 15 years, and the pace of change accelerated during the recession. Now, as recovery is underway, many information managers are trying to get perspective on the overall result of all this change. It's time to take inventory of services, priorities, project ownership, budgets and content portfolios to define what the next stage of development might look like. Full article »
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