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Disruption & evolution in the consumer publishing industry
Heather Holmes of MIT Technology Review answers questions about membership programs vs paywalls© 2013 Didi Yunginger When the publishing industry held its MediaNext conference in NYC last week –...
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Sweater vests & defending the freedom to read
There’s another conversation we’ve been watching with the approach of the ALA Midwinter conference. It has to do with the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom’s Sweater Vest Sunday campaign...
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Recognizing the ‘Impact’ of the information professional
In 2011, Wolper Information Services sought the assistance and infrastructure of the Business & Finance Division of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) in order to bring to fruition an award...
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Reading and annotating, old-style and new
When I read my monthly issue of Fast Company, I do so with pen in hand, such are the riches I find that call for marginal comments, questions, follow-up actions. February’s issue, ironically, included...
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Read Across America
One of my favorite days at work wasn’t about work at all. I was fortunate at the time to have the opportunity to contribute a service day on behalf of my employer, reading to elementary school kids...
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Breaking down silos: How to tackle barriers to change & exchange
CC image courtesy of eirikref Contributed by Rosaria (Ria) Hawkins, Ph.D., President of Take Charge Consultants. (See a more detailed bio, below.) Our world is full of barriers and divisions. We live...
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Breaking down silos: Encouraging change & exchange
Contributed by Rosaria (Ria) Hawkins, Ph.D., President of Take Charge Consultants. (See a more detailed bio, below.) Yesterday we introduced the concept of “silos” and how the nature of human beings...
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The Last Bookshop
Courtesy of The Bakery, "The Last Bookshop" On Friday morning, I was plowing through work, preparing to spend the afternoon on an annual pilgrimage to the Friends of Hunterdon County (NJ) Library book...
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TED: Ideas worth spreading
So, if you’re like me, you know a little something about this TED phenomenon; maybe you’ve watched some of the inspiring videos that live under its virtual umbrella. Maybe some of you even attended...
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Our first year in review
*CC image courtesy of danielmoyle on Flickr On May 31, 2012, our President & CEO Sue Wolper launched our new public website with a “Welcome” message in our industry blog, Insight & Outlook,...
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Search and learning amid the ‘Googlization of Everything’
Google: Whimsical some days; ubiquitous and influential every day! Recently, Dr. Lynn Silipigni Connaway, PhD, Sr. Research Scientist for OCLC, spoke on behalf of NASIG on “Working Outside the Library:...
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Cyc4lib 2013: Personal recap from SLA trio
Courtesy of Eeva Rita-Kasari Last year, Insight & Outlook interviewed Jukka Pennanen, one of the founders of Cycling for Libraries (cyc4lib), after the second annual “unconference” took to the...
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Seed lending: New role for public libraries and their card catalogs!
*Courtesy of W. Custer County Library, Westcliffe, CO Last week, I saw a post on the public library list serv about seed lending. As a gardener and a library fan, I thought, hmm, what a wonderful...
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Discovery services: the future of library systems
This is a recap of last week’s webinar by the same name, an American Libraries Live offering by the American Library Association, moderated by Marshall Breeding of Library Technology Guides, with...
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Analytical techniques for information professionals
CC image courtesy of barbourians on Flickr The Special Libraries Association (SLA) recently offered a webinar on Proven Analytic Methods: Practical Analytical techniques for information professionals....
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Truly Useful Links!
Almost embarrassingly hidden on our website is a resource called Useful Links. Sure. Useful Links. Everybody has them. It’s a standard website feature, almost cliché. But believe me, this page is...
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CCC podcast: Wolper on the changing subscription management industry
For an expert look at the content industry from the consumption side – particularly The Changing Subscription Management Industry – Chris Kenneally of Copyright Clearance Center and host of CCC’s...
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On e-resource management from the Great Lakes E-Summit
Through our new Midwest sales rep and librarian Kit Greening (Wayne State 2006), Wolper was in attendance at last month’s Great Lakes E-Summit, a “boutique” conference that is the region’s only...
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Q&A with ASA’s Nawin Gupta on information industry trends
Nawin Gupta A quick but thought-provoking interview on information industry trends featuring Nawin Gupta, Secretary General of Association of Subscription Agents and Intermediaries (ASA), the...
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The evolving value of information professionals
CC image courtesy of SparkCBC on Flickr We recently spent the breakfast hour over hearty bowls of oatmeal and a just-released report based on research commissioned jointly by the Financial Times and...
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