http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2010/02/08/online-pricing-disruption-is-the-game/ by Stephen E. Arnold Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:55:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2010/02/08/online-pricing-disruption-is-the-game/comment-page-1/#comment-93100 Constance Ard Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:32:29 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=10732#comment-93100 So SLA, a global association of Information Professionals has gone through a debate over changing the name of the association as a step in an Alignment project. The Alignment project is a result of well conducted and documented research that tested language and such. Lots of information about the project is available on the SLA website. Your post reminds me that the alignment research revealed that end users truly do not care about physical libraries...they want information on their desktops. Information professionals should provide resources and information analysis to bring value to the organization and help make business decisions. If Google takes on more of the publishing and access role of information, businesses and information professionals must align to use those resources to continue to fuel good decision making and support the organizations business and bottom line. So SLA, a global association of Information Professionals has gone through a debate over changing the name of the association as a step in an Alignment project. The Alignment project is a result of well conducted and documented research that tested language and such. Lots of information about the project is available on the SLA website. Your post reminds me that the alignment research revealed that end users truly do not care about physical libraries…they want information on their desktops. Information professionals should provide resources and information analysis to bring value to the organization and help make business decisions.
If Google takes on more of the publishing and access role of information, businesses and information professionals must align to use those resources to continue to fuel good decision making and support the organizations business and bottom line.

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