Karen M. Drabenstott
Associate Professor
School of Information
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1092 USA
Voice: (734) 763-3581
Fax: (734) 764-2475
karen.drabenstott@umich.edu
Please join me in thanking Keith Trickey for leading our discussion on "Discovering 'Our Singular Strengths': A Chance for Librarians to Meditate Together." Keith had the difficult task of following an unexpected gap in our CRISTAL-ED schedule and working with our new interim technical moderator, Maggi Seymour. Thanks to Keith for doing such a great job during a difficult time and for his patience in the weeks prior to his discussion when we were trying to restart the LISTSERV.
Due to a scheduling crunch, we are postponing the discussion on "What is a Librarian?: A Discussion of Changing Roles in the Library" until early December. We will use this short week to discuss topics for future discussion. I have another short week (August 30 to September 5) to fill with a discussion. Except for our postponed discussion, we have no topics scheduled in November and beyond. We need to start thinking of discussion topics for this time right now so that CRISTAL-ED can bring our membership uninterrupted service.
What's on your minds? What hot topics have raised their ugly heads in your workplace in recent weeks? What issues merit discussion? What ideas have piqued your interest? What irks you?
Let's try to fill this week with good ideas for new discussion topics.
And, as usual, I'm always looking for volunteers to lead discussions. You can contact me directly (karen.drabenstott@umich.edu) about leading a discussion. Or you can make a topical suggestion to the listserv membership and assess interest before volunteering.
It's now time to get those new discussion topics rolling in!
Karen M. Drabenstott
Associate Professor
School of Information
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1092 USA
Voice: (734) 763-3581
Fax: (734) 764-2475
karen.drabenstott@umich.edu
Here are two topics that a CRISTAL-ED member sent me. He wasn't able to serve as a guest editor but both of us wondered whether there was interest in either topic or whether these topics stir others to make suggestions:
Rebecca Bostian
University Librarian
Washburn University
Topeka, KS 66621
Voice: (785) 231-1010 x1486
Fax: (785) 357-1240
zzbostia@washburn.edu
How about the following topics:
Karen M. Drabenstott
Associate Professor
School of Information
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1092 USA
Voice: (734) 763-3581
Fax: (734) 764-2475
karen.drabenstott@umich.edu
Although Paul Piper recently led a knowledge management discussion in May 1998, there might still be interest in knowledge management issues such as the following suggestion that a CRISTAL-ED member made for a discussion but did not want to edit:
What kinds of success have members had trying to introduce knowledge management applications in their workplace, when management seems to dwell only on the really "hard" (not soft) skills? People with vision and dreams (librarians) must have some interesting wins in selling information resources management as a desirable capability. How do they do it? What is a good "entry level" app for hard boiled managers? :-)
You may join the discussion and look over the list of past and future topics.
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