Authentication Primer: Which Approach Does What?
10th September 2015

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[Topic Series: All About Usage]

One of the most challenging aspects of information access and delivery is user authentication. There are no accepted standards across the industry, and each vendor may support different approaches to access and authentication. At the same time, purchasing organisations may harbour conflicting...

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What We Learned about Information Skills Development
4th August 2015

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[Topic Series: Best Practices in Information Skills Development]

Information work does not look the same today as it did five years ago. Not for information professionals, not for other knowledge workers who interact with information to get their jobs done. That was the driver behind planning and delivering the April - June 2015 Topic Series, "Best Practices...

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Corporate Market for Ebooks: A Look at the Research
30th July 2015

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[Topic Series: All About Usage]

Early in 2015, FreePint completed research on the corporate market for ebooks -- one of the first studies to look beyond the public and academic library markets. We discovered that the pace of adoption is accelerating, with major increases in licensing and usage driven by a number of factors....

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Setting Strategy with FreePint Research
15th July 2015

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FreePint Research provides the foundation for everything we produce. Every Topic Series is grounded in research, and research tells us how to develop and deliver content and Communities of Practice. We use every customer interaction as a research opportunity so that inputs and outputs create a...

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Getting Started with Effective Distance Learning
4th June 2015

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[Topic Series: Best Practices in Information Skills Development]

For many organisations, distance learning promises to solve all training challenges. Remote researchers? No space for workshops? Instructors only available at odd hours? No problem. But if you've made any forays into distance learning, you know that making it effective requires time, patience...

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Do You Know Your Skills Objectives?
28th May 2015

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[Topic Series: Best Practices in Information Skills Development]

We all want better information skills at every level of the organisation. But how many of us have a clear set of objectives for improvement? Early results in the current FreePint Survey: Information Skills Development demonstrate clearly that information managers prioritise development for...

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What We Learned about "Making Information Visible"
28th May 2015

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[Topic Series: Making Information Visible]

From January through March 2015, FreePint ran the Topic Series, "Making Information Visible". This series focused on the central questions: How do knowledge workers access the most valuable information at the point of need? And, even more importantly, what keeps them from seeing it or being aware...

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Improving Your Connection, Communication and Collaboration with IT
21st May 2015

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[Topic Series: Best Practices in Information Skills Development]

Information professionals often need to work with their counterparts in IT departments, both for for basic troubleshooting or long-term collaborative projects. Despite some of the common ground in our industries, the relationships between IT and IS professionals are often characterised by...

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News Strategy in Law Firms - A Perfect Storm of Sources, Technology and Value
24th March 2015

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[Topic: Sources]

How are law librarians addressing the insatiable appetite of their users for news content... while managing budget, risk, resources and stakeholder opinions? This FreePint Webinar draws together several threads of our original research, as well as input from customers in the legal industry and...

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Beautiful Information is Visible Information
18th March 2015

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[Topic Series: Making Information Visible]

"Data visualisation" is a term much in vogue, and it has enormous promise to help users and decision-makers understand complex datasets much more quickly. Information professionals are uniquely positioned to undertake and direct data visualisation projects, with in-depth understanding of source...

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