"What Your Management Needs to Know"
sponsored by Business & Finance Division
Corporate Business Libraries Roundtable
to be presented at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN
Tuesday, June 9, 1998
3:00pm - 4:15pm
Panelists: Mary E. Beall, Jan F. Chindlund, Rebecca S.Corliss,
Christina M. Krawczyk, Cathy A. Porter, Sara R. Tompson, Lorri A. Zipperer
members of the Illinois Chapter of SLA
and authors of Special Libraries: A Guide for Management (4th ed.)
(Washington, DC: Special Libraries Association, 1997)
A - Adopt new ideas.
B - Brand your function.
C - Capitalize knowledge.
D - Develop a function not just a place.
E - Educate management.
F - Find what your users need and give it to them.
G - Greet and meet beyond the library.
H - Hone your skills.
I - Initiate to innovate.
J - Join teams to collaborate.
K - Know the mission of your organization.
L - Lead the way.
M - Market, market, market.
N - Negotiate everything.
O - Obtain the resources you need to do the job.
P - Politic effectively.
Q - Quit whining.
R - Report to management on a regular basis.
S - Show value or die.
T - Think creatively.
U - Use the language of your organization.
V - Verbalize your mission.
W - Welcome opportunities outside the library.
X - X-ray your organization's culture.
Y - Yahoo, Excite, Embrace the Internet.
Z - Zero in on what's important to your organization.
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