Future Ready Begins Today

As the Prez of SLA my initiative for 2011 is to work with the Association to become Future Ready. On January 1, we initiated a new blog titled Future Ready365.

The blog offers up a daily dose of intelligent solutions answering the question: How are you Future Ready? Now, where do these solutions come from? And who benefits from them? The answer to both questions is YOU. Because with your participation, the blog will have contributions from all corners of the SLA community—members, vendors, and partners—who are interested in our community’s success.

Why participate?

There’s no way to sugar-coat it. The upheavals in the library and information industry in the recent past, due to economic turmoil, technological developments, and shifting user expectations, have caused many corporate libraries to close and even made some fundamental library services irrelevant. However, I’m convinced that amongst ourselves, we have the ideas, insight and knowledge to create our desired future. As baseball player Satchel Paige said “None of us is as smart as all of us.”

Join in!

Your contribution—250 words, a handful of images, even audio and video—will build a mosaic that offers the SLA community actionable insights into the future of the profession and association. Submit your post to futureready365@sla.org. Done. The team will take care of the rest.

Here are some ideas to jump start your medulla oblongata:

• How have your client’s expectations of your products and services changed over the past year and how have you addressed those changes?
• If you are not feeling future ready, what is it that is getting in the way?
• With tighter budgets, what criteria do you use to make your clients future ready?

If you’d like to post on a specific day, include that in the email and the team will do their best to accommodate you.

And remember: Future Ready Begins Today!