WORK ON YOUR STORY! He/she who has the best story wins! In life! In business! The White House!

Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.

If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a major challenge for libraries to adapt their content and services to such a diverse technological environment.

Innovation comes only from readily and seamlessly sharing information rather than hoarding it.

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.

Now it is much faster and cheaper to bring thedocument to the user, rather than ask the user to come to the document or collection.

I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the "utmost importance and urgency" of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain terms that, especially in a high-end niche business, Blogging is "the premier way" to have "intimate conversations" with his Clients. Funny thing, I believe it!