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Credo without which one cannot achieve anything
The only irreplaceable capital an organization
possesses is the knowledge and ability of its
people. The productivity of the organization
depends on how effectively people share this
human capital with those who can use it.
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So much to do

• Day-to-day work
• Knowledge of the collections
• New demands and possibilities
• What is the changing role of the manuscript
  librarian?

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Vision

• Have your own authentic generalist vision
• Zdenek Uhlir Answer to the changes
• Avoid detail
• Jutta Weber When, Who, What, Why

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Policy

• Structure your policy
• Bettina Wagner DFG set a good example
• Be realistic and selective
• Martin Bossenbroek make choices
• Be aware of statistics
• André Bouwman relate size to tasks
• Beth McKillop Key performance indicators

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Marketing PR

• Influence your market
• Stephen Hartog positive professional approach
• Know your users
• Mura Ghosh listen to your clients
• Sell yourselves
• Anton Korteweg and get gifts in return!

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Ways of change

• Human factor
• Eef Overgaauw proper education
• Physical factor
• Leslie Morris build one huge central
• Harvard University library
• (according to Jan Krikken)

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Preliminary conclusion

• Scattered picture
• We all have the same problems
• We still lack coherent solutions
• Do not despair it takes 5 to 10 years!

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Differences between us

• Small - large
• National libraries - University libraries
• Other institutions
• What connects us...?

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Themes

• User orientation
• Knowledge management
• Crossing borders

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User orientation

• Adapting to the users needs
• Difficulties
• Know your users. Who are they? What do they
  want?
• Serious investigation methods wanted!
• Interactive means available

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Knowledge management

• Professional and personal skills
• Education
• Curator as two-headed monster
• Content and/or ICT
• Specialist and/or generalist
• Researcher and/or manager

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Crossing borders

• Manuscripts in the virtual world
• New possibilities for research and general
  interest
• Connecting the global heritage
• Multidisciplinary approach
• Added value for all parties involved!

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Suggestion to the expert group

• Organize three international working-groups
• Analysis, research, working programs
• Presentation next conference

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Personal observation

• Krikken was right
• Never mention the endless task to underpin the
  need for extra money or more staff.
• So thats a DONT!

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Personal observation

• DO
• Develop a vision that falls in with the mission
  of your institute
• Take into account what is going on in the rest
  of the world with respect to content
  (information, research, technique)
• Be aware of developments in government-policy
  and the society as a whole

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Personal observation

• DO
• Make the vision tangible policy targets
• Make project plans with clear targets, sharp
  financial foundations and time-limits
• One of your targets should be A Happy Client
• -gt then you will be happy too!