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July 2005	New Power Searching with the Pros workshops in association with ALIA Where and When? Melbourne - RACV Club, 50 Bourke Street 29 -30 August – 9am-5pm Canberra - Novotel Hotel, 65 Northbourne Ave - 1 - 2 September – 9am-5pm Sydney - Quay West Suites, 98 Gloucester St, The Rocks 5-6 September – 9am-5pm For more details, see our events page

Jan 2005	Moving up the Value Chain - a very special workshop on how to prove how valuable your library/information services are! Facilitators: Elizabeth Swan & Maree Lipschitz. Carlton Crest Hotel, Thomas St Haymarket (near Darling Harbour) For further details and bookings please contact Elizabeth Swan. e_swan@infoedge.com.au or refer to our events calendar

Jul 2004	Becoming a Value Added Public Librarian Paper presented by Maree Lipschitz and Elizabeth Swan at the CPLA Conference, Wentworth Nsw, July 2004. Download/View: pdf

Oct 2003	Beans, Bangs and Bucks: diversified revenue streams, effective marketing and skillful management Paper presented at LIANZA October 2003 Download/View: pdf

27 Feb 2003	INFORMATION EDGE - New Reports Drawing on the information we have stored in our EDGE database, we are now able to offer a new information report called FOCUS. FOCUS reports contain summaries and brief commentaries on specific topics. The first one compiled is FOCUS ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE and contains over 100 summaries of some of the best articles published in Australia, UK and USA on this important topic over the past few years. Price A$88 incl. GST Articles reported in FOCUS ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE are available at our normal EDGE document rates. We will shortly compile other reports on topics such as: FOCUS ON RECYCLING OR RE-USE? FOCUS ON SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT FOCUS ON ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING FOCUS ON INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND THE WEB Please contact us if you have suggestions for other topics of interest to you.

29 Nov 2002	From Monasteries to the Phone Booth Paper presented at the LIANZA conference in Wellington, NZ, 20th November 2002. Full Text

29 Nov 2002	Closing Libraries Sadly reports continue of libraries being closed. We will post on our notice board any references to information we come across about why libraries are important and the roles they should play: Recent references we can recommend are: Boyd, S. A traditional library goes virtual. Online (USA), March/April 2002, p. 41-45 This is the story of how Bell Canada library staff changed from a traditional library service to a virtual library with a different staff mix. Now the library staff manage the desktop delivery of information for clients who are using the library for the most difficult reference inquiries. Horwitch, M. and Armacost, R. Helping knowledge management be all it can be. Journal of Business Strategy(USA) 23 (3) May/June 2002, 26-31 This excellent article by Bain consultants defines what Knowledge Management is, why it matters, it explains KM in practice at Bain & Company, and discusses the link between KM and strategy, the need to drive KM from the top , the need to have people brokering knowledge and the secondary role of technology. Siemens claims a 1400% Return on Investment for its KM

28 Nov 2002	Search Engines Useful Web sites relating to the performance of search engines and how to choose the most appropriate search engines: http://lisweb.curtin.edu.au/staff/gwpersonal/compare.html http://library.albany.edu/internet/choose.html http://www.searchenginewatch.com/facts/ataglance.html http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/features

1 Nov 2002	Submissions to the Australian Parliament Senate Inquiry on the role of libraries in the online environment are now available on the WWW. See: submission list in the Parliament of Australia website. The submission from Information Edge is no. 109.

15 Oct 2002	Smart searching on the Internet Anne Mintz is the Knowledge Manager at Forbes magazine in New York. She was on the Factiva Advisory Board with Elizabeth Swan and others for 3 years until earlier this year. Her new book has now been published WEB OF DECEPTION: MISINFORMATION ON THE INTERNET. Actually she edits the book which contains chapters by a number of eminent information professionals in the US including Barbara Quint, Susan Detwiler, Susan Feldman, Stephen Arnold and several others. This is a great book for anyone who wants to use the Internet skilfully for retrieving information. Horror stories abound on how misleading some corporate information sites are, charity scams, counterfeit sites, medical misinformation, email fraud , privacy infringements and much more. Published by Information Today, the book will probably be on sale at Information Today's booth at Information Online in Sydney in January 2003. ISBN for the information professionals who may not want to wait until January is 0-0910965-60-9