2012 Best Practices for Government Libraries

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BEST PRACTICES 2012
SLA 2011: Government Information Professionals Now and into the
Future
By Marie Kaddell, Senior Information Professional Consultant, LexisNexis
The SLA Division of Government Information had their annual business meeting on
Tuesday, June 14, 2011, featuring special guest speaker: Blane Dessy, Federal
Library and Information Center Committee.
Here are a few takeaways from the program:
Government information professionals often find themselves in an invisible
role in their agencies, in interagency groups and task forces, in many
professional associations, and in the literature. How can government
librarians work to change that?
Think about federal libraries as a larger federal information enterprise.
Things to consider in government settings:
o strategic content management and stakeholder engagement
o strategic knowledge assets -- identification and digitization of
internally created content/digital preservation
o performance measurement
o increased usage of new technologies including mobile devices and
social media
o social media within the organization (versus outward-facing)
o less formal interactions/collaborative approaches
o technological innovations and how they impact user expectation and
experience