michelynn mcknight - the impact of the agile information professional
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The Impact of the Agile Information
ProfessionalMichelynn McKnight, PhD, AHIP
Associate Professor
Louisiana State University
School of Library and Information Science
Baton Rouge, LA, USA [email protected]
NVB 100: Utrecht
15 November 2012
Louisiana
The shape of Texas
in a bar in the
Dallas-Fort Worth (Texas)Airport
Baton Rouge on the Mississippi River 129 kilometers up river from New Orleans
Information Professionals:
Doing betterWhat we have always
done well
What have we always done well?
Information Services
People
Systems and Sources
Information
Agile information services
have impact!
Are our servicesclient-centered
orlibrary-centered?
Are our services proactive or
reactive?
Information Literacy
Know you need to know something
Know how to use systems to find sources
Know what to do with the sources – how to evaluate them for your need.
Agile Information Professionals
Love their work
Are appreciated
Keep green and growing
Rigid Information Professionals
Are frustrated
Are not appreciated
Are far behind today’s clients and sources
We can be RIGID when we are dead –
Until then let’s be AGILE
How can you really make an
IMPACT?
Know
Show
Tell
“Spanish Moss” and Live Oak Tree
All library and information services support a larger institution.
Agile Information Professionals:
Doing betterWhat we have always
done well
The Impact of the Agile Information
ProfessionalMichelynn McKnight, PhD, AHIP
Associate Professor
Louisiana State University
School of Library and Information Science
Baton Rouge, LA, USA [email protected]
NVB 100: Utrecht
15 November 2012