Four Tools for Collaboration at a Distance
Written By: Guest Blogger Sophia Guevara, MLIS, MPA. For professionals who work in large organizations stretching across states or even the country, finding tools to help your team complete their work can be quite important. Tools that allow your team to collaborate and work together can be difficult to find if you don’t know […]
Soutron Global Committed to Working with Clients
San Diego, CA International library transformation company Soutron Global announces its 2018 Toronto User Group meeting to be held in Toronto, ON, Canada on October 25th. Soutron Global’s annual Toronto User Group meeting is a powerful venue for the company to meet with its clients and listen to their needs, demonstrate the direction of […]
Unconventional Resources: Four Research Options
Written By: Guest Blogger Sophia Guevara, MLIS, MPA. The question was how to save them! Cast iron mini servers rendered nearly unusable by rust needed rescuing! Not being a typical research request, I decided to look beyond books and articles to help resolve the problem. Turning to a burgeoning new avenue of help, YouTube, […]
Developing the Professional You on a Budget: 5 Tips
Written By: Guest Blogger Sophia Guevara, MLIS, MPA. Professional development on a budget. For many information professionals, that idea is too familiar. But what if that development plan centers around you? For those that want to become professionally active, creating a plan doesn’t have to be expensive, just creative. Here are 5 tips that can […]
Doing More with Less: Five Tips for Electronic Resource Negotiation
Written By: Guest Blogger Sophia Guevara, MLIS, MPA. In library school, I took several courses that introduced me to indexing, researching, and cataloging, yet I was never provided with a course option in resource licensing or negotiation. My first professional position was focused almost exclusively on licensing work. During this time I was able […]
Do We Still Need Brick and Mortar Libraries?
Written By: Mary Dudman, Soutron Global Training Services Manager, MLS We know you’ve all seen articles about the demise of brick and mortar department stores. Is the same thing happening to libraries? Is the traditional library dead and gone? What is a “traditional library” anyway? Is there such a thing anymore? Libraries have a […]
Don’t Recreate the Wheel: 5 Tips for Organizational Knowledge Sharing
Written By: Guest Blogger Sophia Guevara, MLIS, MPA. Every day each experience we go through provides us with lessons. Many of those lessons are learned through our work experiences. Organizations are continuously learning new lessons, but much of this knowledge is not actively shared or even promoted. Many lessons learned find their way into a […]
Why do my Journals and Electronic Journals Cost so Much?
Written By: Mary Dudman, Soutron Global Training Services Manager, MLS Is there a Serials Crisis? What can I do to I make things more available for a price my budget can stand? It seems today that the price of everything is growing exponentially. Libraries, information and knowledge resource centers have always felt the […]
Of Libraries, Little Red Wagons, and Rocket Ships
Written By: Mary Dudman, Soutron Global Training Services Manager, MLS I can remember as a child getting the little red wagon out of the garage, filling it with an assortment of favorite books, an old blanket, maybe a peanut butter sandwich and a mason jar of lemonade and heading out with my siblings under […]
Digitalization Brings New Expectations
Written By: Guest Blogger Karen Hardman People quite literally have the internet in their hands these days – they live and do business in a digital world. This brings new expectations resulting in customer experience being more important than ever. There is no escaping this digital revolution, it’s everywhere and it’s vital to sustain competitive […]
