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• Navigating Our Relationship with IT: Starting a dialogue and identifying common organizational goals are critical to a successful relationship between libraries and IT departments.
• The Transformative Power of Dialogue: MORE AND MORE, COMMON GOALS ARE REPLACING TECHNICAL PROBLEMS AS CONVERSATION STARTERS BETWEEN IT DEPARTMENTS AND LIBRARIES.
• An Insider's View of IT: THE FIRST PRIORITY OF THE IT DEPARTMENT IS TO SAFEGUARD THE ORGANIZATION'S DATA AND NETWORK. LIBRARIANS CAN USE THEIR CUSTOMER SERVICE ORIENTATION TO HELP IT BETTER SERVE USERS.
• Five Ways to Build a Strong Relationship with IT.
• Personal Interaction Sets the Stage for Success.
• READERS' TIPS.
• 10 Questions: Sophia Guevara: IF THERE'S ONE THING SOPHIA GUEVARA LIKES MORE THAN TECHNOLOGY, IT'S SHARING WHAT SHE LEARNS ABOUT IT WITH OTHERS.
• TECH WEBINARS * NAME CHANGE * SLA STRUCTURE.
• Librarians, Information Professionals and IT: A Natural Fit: MANY IT CHALLENGES ARE ACTUALLY INFORMATION CHALLENGES, AND THE SLA CORE COMPETENCIES SHOW HOW LIBRARIANS AND INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS ARE EQUIPPED TO ADDRESS THEM.
• Diversity in the Library: There is broad agreement that the library profession needs to become more diverse, but also that we cannot simply try to hire our way to that goal.

Featured documents

• Connecting people to other people: understanding how people share knowledge with others is critical to implementing an effective content strategy in your organization.
• The information strategy and the librarian: developing and managing an information strategy for your organization can help add value to information resources and foster the growth of an information culture at all levels.
• Visual literacy as information literacy in the agricultural sciences: Including a visual literacy component in an information literacy course helped students better understand the value of visual information tools and analysis.
• Tweets and copyright law protection.
• User Experience Is Everyone.
• Information professionals and user experience: user experience tools and techniques can help information professionals identify problems with user interactions and develop solutions.
• UNIT WEBSITES: SLA Chapters and Divisions to Migrate to New Website Platform.
• Wearable devices to become more popular.
• 10 Questions: Dhanashree Date and Ayesha Mallik: A GROUNDING IN COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE AND A OESIRE TO COMPARE THEIR SERVICES WITH THOSE OF THEIR GLOBAL COLLEAGUES LED TWO LIBRARIANS IN INDIA TO WRITE AND PRESENT A PAPER AT SLA 2017.
• Network like nobody's watching: demystifying networking as a skill for the librarian and information professional community.