This essay, offered as a blog post for my friends and regular readers, is written as my own tribute to Belle da Costa Greene and, as such, to the Morgan Library and Museum. Such a tribute is highly appropriate at this time in New York, as we are moving into the closing months of one …
SLA at 115: Welcoming Our Future
Guy St. Clair was recently invited to write for the re-launched Information Outlook, the professional journal of the Special Libraries Association. Guy had previously written SLA at 100: From “Putting Knowledge To Work” to Building the Knowledge Culture—A Centennial History of SLA (The Special Libraries Association) 1909-2009, published in 2009. An online version of SLA’s …
Applied Knowledge Services: A New Approach to Management and Leadership
[Guy St. Clair: This post is co-authored with colleague Barrie Schessler Levy, with whom I wrote The Knowledge Services Handbook: A Guide for the Knowledge Strategist (a companion volume to Knowledge Services: A Strategic Framework for the 21st Century Organization). Both titles are published by De Gruyter in Munich and Berlin. This post was first …
Humanist Management and Knowledge Services: What Do We Get?
[Guy St. Clair: This post is co-authored with colleague Jake Gach, Consultant at Accenture. Jake’s insight for this post is particularly appreciated. The post was first published on September 14, 2020 in SMR’s Knowledge Services Blog.] In today’s society, especially in the United States but equally in many other parts of the world, much thought …
Tim Wood Powell on The Value of Knowledge
[Guy St. Clair: I had the distinct pleasure of speaking recently with Tim Powell about his new book, The Value of Knowledge: The Economics of Enterprise Knowledge and Intelligence. Released in July, The Value of Knowledge is the second title in De Gruyter’s new series Knowledge Services, for which I am the Series Editor. In the series, we seek …