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Published on Mar 25, 2016

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To boldly go... to the

Business Librarians Association Conference 2014
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Rockets!!!

National Space Centre

Exotic Leicester
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Customer Service Excellence

Leeds
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  • Similar to Investors in People
  • 2 way communication crucial
  • Not just front-line
  • Knowing and Listening to people
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Space management

Birkbeck, The Hive, Skills Hub

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  • Occupeye system at Birkbeck
  • ID free seats!
  • AA batteries
  • Student sabotage
  • Underoccupation...
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  • £60 million  for the Hive
  • Library service combined with other services
  • Books interfiled, some restrictions
  • Longer opening
  • Skills hub: for uni and community

Vendors

Selling our souls for free wine...

EBSCO

  • What they bring to the table...
  • eBooks, Discover
  • Visible support
  • Tech that works
  • BSC: BLA discount for alumni
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FT.com

  • The hardest job ever!
  • Change in market
  • Buy our overpriced offering!
  • Negotiation is futile...
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Emerald

  • Emerging markets case studies
  • Learning zone: study skills
  • Authors: how to guides
  • New CHEST agreement
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Bureau van Dijk: Orbis

  • Kosovo
  • Burma
  • Turkey
  • Afghanistan
  • Algeria etc...
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Others

  • Euromonitor: Buy Passport!
  • Lexis Nexis: Buy Nexis!
  • ProQuest: Who should do training anyway?
  • ABI: more resources (Euromonitor & EIU reports)
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Employability

Hull, DeMontfort

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  • 79% to uni for employability
  • Graduate skills shortfall
  • Hull way curriculum 2016
  • Hull Awards

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  • Grad skills licence
  • Had to broaden focus
  • Top-down buy-in
  • Promotion
  • Student buy-in

Information Literacy

Jane Secker

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  • DL is IL
  • Digital natives - complacency. Still gaps!
  • IL / Learning Development- 2 sides, same coin
  • UNESCO: global focus not just DL
  • Neil Gaiman: 1 answer NOT what we do

Marketing

Ned Potter
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  • All Marketing = communication
  • White noise: web reminders, websites
  • Appear where not expected
  • TAX office example
  • Personalise relationships

Ethnography

Andy Priestner
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  • Study of User experience
  • More personal, delves deeper
  • More balanced
  • Corporate ethnography of 1990s
  • It's the "new thing"
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Summary

Apart from rockets = good...

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  • Communication
  • Adding value
  • Building trust & relationships
  • Collaboration outside and in
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