A lot can happen in a week. The Vable team always have their ears to the ground and want to highlight a couple of recent information-related items in the news.
Clare Brown, on February 18, 2019
A lot can happen in a week. The Vable team always have their ears to the ground and want to highlight a couple of recent information-related items in the news.
Clare Brown, on September 13, 2018
Working directly with news content can feel overwhelming due to the sheer quantity of information. As such, two recent (unrelated) conversations struck a chord when they imagined the abstract concept of information flow using ‘firefighting’ imagery*. Here I revisit some ideas about how information people - and content providers - act as intermediaries to help their end-users avoid the information deluge.
Remy Maisel, on February 7, 2018
Pip Christie, on March 22, 2017
A quick LinkedIn search reveals that there are 158,455 Librarians, 71,224 Information Officers and 10,479 Knowledge Managers on the professional networking site. Whilst industries such as legal and academic tend to have more Librarians, and accounting and banking more Information Professionals, we are seeing a growing trend of library job titles shifting away from the traditional Librarian, towards a broader information role.
Pip Christie, on January 25, 2017
Whereas the world historically used to depend on visible capital in the form of land and labour, as economies have developed we see ourselves moving over to a knowledge economy (1). We are less concerned with what we have and instead think more about how we use it.
Alison Jones, on December 14, 2016
For lawyers as for everyone, information is more readily available than ever before. But it has also never been more difficult to locate that one vital piece of information that will transform a lawyer’s interaction with their client.
Pip Christie, on May 25, 2016
Earlier this month we were lucky enough to attend the first BIALL (British & Irish Association of Law Librarians) Knowledge Management Group Event kindly hosted by Shearman & Sterling at their London offices. The key speaker for the lunchtime discussion was Jane Bradbury, currently Slaughter & May’s Head of Knowledge and Information, who gave an inspirational and engaging lecture exploring "An Evolving Landscape: From Information Gatekeeper to Knowledge Professional”.
Rebecca Gebhardt, on December 17, 2014
British company C24 Ltd have publishes a short write paper about business intelligence:
Rebecca Gebhardt, on November 12, 2014
PKM was the subject of the latest SLA GA chapter luncheon, held on Oct. 22nd at the lovely new Hyatt Fork & Juniper. In particular we were offered a presentation by Crystal Renfro and Mary Axford who write the blog http://www.academicpkm.org
Rebecca Gebhardt, on August 28, 2014
Another session I attended at the ILTA 2014 conference was Ways To Succeed or Screw Up Your Legal Tech Deployments, and while there were several points of interest in this panel discussion, I want to point to one in particular.
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