LEXISNEXIS INFO BREAK FOR MILITARY LIBRARIANS

OCTOBER 2013

Marie Kaddell, M.L.S., M.S., M.B.A. LexisNexis Senior Information Professional Consultant

Twitter: @libraryfocus http://www.governmentinfopro.com LIKE at www.lexisnexisforgovernment on Facebook

• New LexisNexis content and resources

• Conference and Program takeaways

– The Look of Leadership Today (AALL)

– Building Versatility and Leadership in Your Staff and Yourself at Work and in the Volunteer Sphere (LexisNexis National Press Club Event for Government Librarians)

– The Future of Libraries (AALL)

• Best Practices for Government Libraries Spotlight: Tools for Transformation

• Top webinar recommendations and social media resources for November

*Slides will be made available for your reference after the session.

AGENDA

NEW CONTENT

• US Coast Guard Commandant Decisions - These Commandant

decisions and orders are issued on appeal from decisions and

orders of Examiners and Administrative Law Judges of the United

States Coast Guard. The actions are administrative in nature and

are brought to address allegations of incompetence, negligence,

and misconduct. The decisions in this file are dated from 1949 to

current.

• Dept of Defense Issuances, Directives and Dept of Defense

Issuances, Directive-Type Memorandums contains Directives

from the the Dept. of Defense Directives Division. The Directives

Division administers and operates the DoD Directives

Program. The DoD Directives Program processes the documents

that establish and implement DoD policy, called "DoD issuances.“

• Just War Theory: Religious Perspectives and Modern

International Law Compared - An authoritative analysis of

important cases, codes, statutes, rulings, emerging issues or legal

topics is available now - through LexisNexis Emerging Issues

Analysis.

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• LexisNexis® A.S. Pratt™ and LexisNexis® Sheshunoff™ eBooks

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Here’s a kid-friendly list of top Halloween movies -

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CONFERENCE AND

PROGRAM TAKEAWAYS

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What will the library of 2020 be?

• The library in 2020 will be more of a concept than a place. (Ptacek)

• Providing critical services, unduplicated elsewhere. (Mike Crandall)

• Authentic engagement, partnership, advocacy. (Molly Raphael)

• Boutique, tailored services and relationships, embedding in places expected and otherwise (courses, groups, airports, parks. (Lynn Silipigni Connaway)

• The question is who are we? What is role of technology with softer skills? What's our aspirational role model? (Courtney Greene)

Takeaways: The Future of Libraries with

Joseph James (AALL)

What will the library of 2020 be?

• The role of civic institution: trust, neutrality, love. (Susan Hildreth)

• The library of 2020 will offer a culture of generosity supported by fiscal oversight that reflects rigorous controls and realistic projections. (Josie Barnes Parker)

• The library in 2020 will be the last bastion of truth. (Peter Morville)

• "Inspiration architecture" - examples of spaces engineered to lift us up and symbolize what we have done and can do. (Peter Morville)

• ...crumbling

• We’re librarians, and it's our job to fight; for rights of communities to make choices about how they seek, manage, maintain, share information. (Daniel Chudnov)

Takeaways: The Future of Libraries with

Joseph James (AALL)

Want to hear more?

• Audio: Joe Janes and David Votta Discuss Libraries

in the Age of Technology on Michigan Radio -

http://www.michiganradio.org/post/future-libraries-

world-technology

Takeaways: The Future of Libraries with

Joseph James (AALL)

Speaker: Naomi House, INALJ (I Need a Library Job) Founder, 2013 ALA Mover and Shaker Balancing Act and Actions: Building Versatility and Leadership in Your Staff and Yourself at Work and in the Volunteer Sphere

• Steps for balancing work and professional efforts

• Strategizing - What do I need & want?

• Planning - Who can use me?

• Executing - When can I do this?

• Stabilizing -What works?

• New - Address efficiency often!

• Perform - Just hit your marks

2013 National Press Club Event for Government Librarians

Takeaways: The Look of Leadership

Today: What It Is—What It Isn’t (AALL)

Presenters: Gail Johnson (Speaker), Pam Parr (Speaker), Julie Pabarja (Coordinator)

• As a leader would you rather have someone walking behind you as a follower or other leaders walking beside you? #aall13

• We aspire to be leaders but we learn to be followers. #aall13

• If you can't imagine doing anything else then you know you're doing what you love and that can change over time. #aall13

• Leaders know what they do makes a difference, has value, and they have a cause. #aall13

• Leaders love what they do and they can't wait to get to work. #aall13

• Leadership: Thinking creatively is a habit. #aall13

• Leadership: Can't ask people to use their creative brain sometimes and follow blindly others. ##aall13

SPOTLIGHT: Tools for Transformation

By Cindy Romaine, SLA Past President 2011, Romainiacs Intelligent Research with Ken Wheaton, PNW Chapter President 2012

• “Don’t get comfortable!”

• A more connected information-rich and data hungry future.

• The Tools:

• Understand content management

• Align with your organization’s goals and objectives

• Be a change agent

• Brush up on facilitation skills

• Enable the flow of knowledge

• Use visualization

SPOTLIGHT: Tools for Transformation

By Cindy Romaine, SLA Past President 2011, Romainiacs Intelligent Research with Ken Wheaton, PNW Chapter President 2012

The day-to-day approach

• Investigate new technologies until your brain hurts

• Practice collaboration until your face hurts

• Type emails, reports, and presentations until your wrists

hurt

• Sit in meetings until your butt hurts

Read the full article starting on page 41 of Best Practices for Government Libraries 2012.

http://www.pinterest.com/mchrn/old-courthouses/

SOCIAL MEDIA SPOTLIGHT

http://www.pinterest.com/usgpo/libraries/

SOCIAL MEDIA SPOTLIGHT

https://www.facebook.com/VeteransAffairs

SOCIAL MEDIA SPOTLIGHT

http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/productivity-tools-and-techniques-ht?utm/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/18/sci-fi-books-future_n_4117268.html

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/19/newser-died-in-

house/3025953

ARE YOU ATTENDING?

http://military.sla.org/mlw2013/

UPCOMING PROGRAMS & WEBINARS

• Grace Under Pressure: Tips and Tricks to Cultivate a Positive Approach – Webjunction – November 12th

• When Good Leaders (Sometimes) Go Bad – AMA - November 6th

• The Evolution of Usage Statistics – Library Journal - November 12th

• Become an Expert Google Searcher in an Hour - O-Reilly - November 14th

• Barriers to Change: Understanding Roadblocks to Progress in Organizations and Communities – NonProfit Webinars – November 6th

MOOCs

• MOOC: Innovation for Powerful Outcomes – Ope2Study – November 18th

• MOOC: Writing for the Web - Open2Study – November 18th

• MOOC: Teaching Adult Learners - Open2Study – November 18th

• MOOC: U.S. Military Service and the Law - The John Marshall Law School – November 4th

*A massive open online course (MOOC) is an online course aimed at large-scale interactive participation and open access via the web. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOOC)

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Join Marie and her featured guest speaker, Adam Dietz, LexisNexis Senior Government Consultant, for the November 2013 webinar: Legislative Research.

TIME: 12 PM EST

DATE: November 7, 2013 and November 14, 2013

Details will be provided in an email invitation and on the Government Info Pro at http://www.governmentinfopro.com

See you for the next Info Break

in November!