Making New Music Together

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Making New Music Together

• Susan Fifer Canby
• National Geographic Society
• SLA Annual Conference
• June 8, 2004

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A Trio Two Small Bands Orchestra

• Library (with Intranet) 14 staff
• Archives Records Library 13 staff
• Indexing 3 staff

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Agenda

• Introduction
• Management Impetus
• Strategies
• Getting Over Were Different
• Implications for the NGS
• Questions

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New Sounds

• 1903-1994 Library
• 1994 Library and Intranet
• 1995 Library, Intranet plus Indexing
• 1998 Library, Intranet, Indexing plus Archives
  and Records
• 2003 Libraries and Information Services (LIS)

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National Geographic Society
Missions
Corporate Services
Magazines
Books Educ Publications
Enterprise Group
Ventures
NGT Films
NG.com
NG Maps
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Library and Information Services
Mission

• To provide strategic information support and
  guidance to editorial and business divisions, and
  to gather, leverage, and preserve the documentary
  assets and history of the National Geographic
  Society.

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Agenda

• Introduction
• Management
• Strategies
• Getting Over It
• Implications
• Questions

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Staffing Strategies

• Eliminate redundancies
• Consolidate tools
• Job share and cross train

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Staffing Strategies

• Develop cross divisional approach to tasks
• Anticipate how to close ranks
• Create an internship program
• Develop new leadership skills

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Collections Strategies
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Space Strategies

• Physical reduced 9 offices or 1737 sq. ft.

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Branding Strategies

• Consolidated brochures
• Consistent training
• Consistent marketing
• One logo
• One website

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Websites Merge
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Federated Searching
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Reporting

• Annual report, weekly reports, tech reports,
  manager meetings
• Professional meetings

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Agenda

• Introduction
• Management Impetus
• Strategies
• Getting Over Were Different
• Implications
• Questions

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Getting Over the Dissonance Different
vocabularies Different professional
perspectives MLS not the only path Loss of
individuality/integrity Exploit sameness and
diversity
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Agenda

• Introduction
• Management
• Strategies
• Getting Over
• Implications
• Questions

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Impact Customers Management LIS
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Susan Fifer CanbyLibraries and Information
Services1145 17th Street N.W.sfiferca_at_ngs.org20
2-857-7787