Katharine Schopflin – författare

Practical Knowledge and Information Management (KIM) is a guide written by and for knowledge and information management practitioners. As well as offering an introduction to the field, it provides advice and expertise that can be applied to real-life workplace situations. It offers an antidote to hype and best practice you can actually use.Content covered includes:introducing KIM to organizations information management and governance communities of practice, knowledge sharing and learning knowledge bases, know-how and wikis after-action reviews, project learning and legacy This book will be useful for existing knowledge and information practitioners as well as information professionals increasing their skills in the area. It offers insight for experienced professionals and a good introduction to students and professionals wanting to increase their knowledge.

This edited collection provides a cutting edge overview of issues of key concern for information professionals providing information services in corporate environments. Corporate information professionals serving the workplace rather than learning communities or the general public face specific challenges and demands, from providing competitive intelligence to managing information in a global environment. International contributors working across a variety of sectors pinpoint the key topics facing the corporate information professionals today and share their experiences and expertise. The key topics include:

how information professionals/libraries fit into the contemporary workplace managing the corporate intranet the role of the corporate librarian in internal and external marketing gaining buy-in for corporate knowledge and information management the hybrid librarian/systems specialist managing staff and change in a difficult climate, and demonstrating value managing information in a global firm; developing corporate taxonomies at a time of change working with suppliers/licensing for elibraries training end-users competitive intelligence searching.

Readership: Experienced information professionals working in the corporate sector, including professional services firms, government, NGOs, commercial and industrial companies. The book should be useful to those with a high level of experience and/or seniority, wanting an overview on specific aspects of corporate information management, but will be accessible to more recent entrants to the workplace. It will also be of interest to students of librarianship and those applying for jobs within the sector, as well as the related professions of knowledge management, information architecture and intranet management.

This edited collection provides a cutting edge overview of issues of key concern for information professionals providing information services in corporate environments. Corporate information professionals serving the workplace rather than learning communities or the general public face specific challenges and demands, from providing competitive intelligence to managing information in a global environment. International contributors working across a variety of sectors pinpoint the key topics facing the corporate information professionals today and share their experiences and expertise. The key topics include:how information professionals/libraries fit into the contemporary workplacemanaging the corporate intranetthe role of the corporate librarian in internal and external marketinggaining buy-in for corporate knowledge and information managementthe hybrid librarian/systems specialistmanaging staff and change in a difficult climate, and demonstrating valuemanaging information in a global firm; developing corporate taxonomies at a time of changeworking with suppliers/licensing for elibrariestraining end-userscompetitive intelligence searching. Readership: Experienced information professionals working in the corporate sector, including professional services firms, government, NGOs, commercial and industrial companies. The book should be useful to those with a high level of experience and/or seniority, wanting an overview on specific aspects of corporate information management, but will be accessible to more recent entrants to the workplace. It will also be of interest to students of librarianship and those applying for jobs within the sector, as well as the related professions of knowledge management, information architecture and intranet management.

Practical Knowledge and Information Management (KIM) is a guide written by and for knowledge and information management practitioners. As well as offering an introduction to the field, it provides advice and expertise that can be applied to real-life workplace situations. It offers an antidote to hype and best practice you can actually use.

Content covered includes:

introducing KIM to organizations information management and governance communities of practice, knowledge sharing and learning knowledge bases, know-how and wikis after-action reviews, project learning and legacy

This book will be useful for existing knowledge and information practitioners as well as information professionals increasing their skills in the area. It offers insight for experienced professionals and a good introduction to students and professionals wanting to increase their knowledge.

This edited collection provides a cutting edge overview of issues of key concern for information professionals providing information services in corporate environments. Corporate information professionals serving the workplace rather than learning communities or the general public face specific challenges and demands, from providing competitive intelligence to managing information in a global environment. International contributors working across a variety of sectors pinpoint the key topics facing the corporate information professionals today and share their experiences and expertise. The key topics include:how information professionals/libraries fit into the contemporary workplacemanaging the corporate intranetthe role of the corporate librarian in internal and external marketinggaining buy-in for corporate knowledge and information managementthe hybrid librarian/systems specialistmanaging staff and change in a difficult climate, and demonstrating valuemanaging information in a global firm; developing corporate taxonomies at a time of changeworking with suppliers/licensing for elibrariestraining end-userscompetitive intelligence searching. Readership: Experienced information professionals working in the corporate sector, including professional services firms, government, NGOs, commercial and industrial companies. The book should be useful to those with a high level of experience and/or seniority, wanting an overview on specific aspects of corporate information management, but will be accessible to more recent entrants to the workplace. It will also be of interest to students of librarianship and those applying for jobs within the sector, as well as the related professions of knowledge management, information architecture and intranet management.

Media librarians - information workers employed by media organizations such as broadcasters and publishers of newspapers, magazines and websites - often seem to have a low profile in both the information profession and among their employers. Academic, legal and public librarians are often intrigued to discover that some of their peers work for the same people who provide their television programmes and daily newspaper. Yet, media companies, producing vast quantities of content in an increasing variety of formats, need people both to help them fill up column inches, pages or hours, and to organize this content afterwards so that it can be found again. Although unlikely to be called ''librarian'' - ''researcher'', ''media manager'' or ''information manager'' are more likely titles - information professionals continue to carry this task out for media organizations throughout the world.This practical handbook, the only one of its kind, explores the issues of central importance facing media librarians, archivists, cataloguers and researchers in their working lives. With chapters contributed by frontline practitioners who have experienced the problems for themselves, it covers: media libraries in the 21st century; managing intranets; picture libraries and librarianship; cataloguing television programmes; managing online subscriptions; legal issues for news databases and archives; regional libraries: a survivor''s guide; and, swimming upstream in a media library.Media librarians often have little time for professional development activities. Questions like ''What resource should I buy?'', ''Shall I let this user borrow this item?'', ''Is it ethical for me to answer that question?'' and ''How can I describe this footage?'' set policy and precedent every day. This book condenses and synthesises this invaluable knowledge to equip media librarians to face the challenges of today''s information world. It will also be essential reading for students of librarianship and information studies, and on other media-related courses.