Library Workflow Redesign: Six Case Studies

I haven't had a chance to look at these workflow redesign case studies published by The Council on Library and Information Resources but they certainly warrant it from the description.

You can read the documents for free at the CLIR website.

Call for nominations - Information Professional of the Year

Thomson Scientific and Dialog announced at the Information Online conference that they will continue their sponsorship of the Australia & New Zealand Chapter of the Special Library Association's (SLA) Information Professional of the Year Award. From the Thomson press release:

"Nominations should be e-mailed to Marie McKenzie, past president of the SLA Australia and New Zealand Chapter at mckenzieinfo@aapt.net.au. Any questions regarding the nomination process and selection criteria should also be directed to Marie. The deadline for submitting nominations is May 11, 2007. Individuals may nominate themselves or others."

So...what are waiting for!

MeSH® Subheading Consolidation Decision

From the NLM Technical Notes post of 30 Jan 07, "Last year, the National Library of Medicine® (NLM®) proposed to consolidate the 83 existing qualifiers (subheadings) in the Medical Subject Headings and create a smaller set"..."in part due to budget constraints and limited resources, NLM has made the decision to retain the qualifiers in their present form."

EBLIP4 Conference

Two pieces of news about the forthcoming Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Conference being held from May 6-11 2007 at Chapel Hill-Durham, North Carolina:

1. the deadline for poster abstractshas been extended until 5 March 2007

2. registration to the conference is now open.