Montague Institute Review March 2010

April 2010

ARTICLES

Moving up the value chain: Unconventional tips for info pros

Proactive professionals that want to influence — not just respond to — opportunities created by technological change, can profit by these unconventional tips.

Forthcoming book: Customizing & Governing the SharePoint Search System

Scheduled for publication late spring, early summer of 2010, this enterprise electronic book combines high-level strategic concepts with detailed how-to instructions.

DIGEST

Knowledge Base Editor's Digest

This month's entries include articles about a challenge to prevailing economic dogma, how technological change is changing universities, and a new Library of Congress initiative to archive tweets (very short electronic messages).

ROUNDTABLES & SEMINARS

SharePoint 2010: Search system preview (May 19, 2010 via teleconference)

Jean Graef, Montague Institute founder, leads a detailed exploration of new search and metadata features in SharePoint 2010.

How to define excellence when libraries go virtual (June 13, 2010 face-to-face)

A workshop at the Special Libraries Association annual conference in New Orleans.

Taxonomies, Search & SharePoint How-to (July 13 - 15, 2010 via teleconference)

A 3-part teleconference devoted to the nuts-and-bolts of how to set up and customize SharePoint 2010 search and navigation.

REGULAR FEATURES

Best of the Lists (collected wisdom of the world's information experts)

Faceted taxonomy examples

How to get the most from our Web site (tutorial)

17 slides that contain an overview of our content and tips on how to use it.