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Report from InSight Summit 2: How Can Librarians, Publishers, and Providers of Discovery and Management Tools Collaborate to More Effectively Communicate the Value of Information?

Report from InSight Summit 2: How Can Librarians, Publishers, and Providers of Discovery and Management Tools Collaborate to More Effectively Communicate the Value of Information?
By: Nadine Dexter, AHIP
Thu November 15, 2018
The theme for the second MLA InSight Summit was “Meeting the Evolving Information Needs of Library Stakeholders.” This article reports on the challenge of how information librarians and librarians can collaborate in explaining to users why licensed (and often costly) content has real value to them.
Blog link: InSight Initiative

Report from InSight Summit 2: How Information Providers and Libraries Can Collaborate in Supporting Users in Developing Information Literacy through the Research/Publishing Life Cycle

By: Rich Lampert
Wed October 31, 2018
The theme for the second MLA InSight Summit was “Meeting the Evolving Information Needs of Library Stakeholders,” following closely on observations at the first InSight Summit that librarians and information providers needed to focus on quantitative and qualitative approaches to understanding users.
Blog link: InSight Initiative

Report from the InSight Initiative Summit: Imagining the Ideal Social Networking Site for Collaboration and Sharing

By: Richard Gallagher
Mon July 2, 2018
Much of the time at InSight Initiative Summit 1, held in March, was devoted to small-group discussions of issues that both librarians and vendors regarded as challenging. This is the fourth of four articles that synthesize key points from the discussions.
Blog link: InSight Initiative

Report from the InSight Initiative Summit: Leveraging Specialized Discovery Tools to Maximize User Engagement

By: Nadine Dexter, AHIP
Mon June 18, 2018
Much of the time at InSight Initiative Summit 1, held in March, was devoted to small-group discussions of issues that both librarians and vendors regarded as challenging. This is the third of four articles that synthesize key points from the discussions.
Blog link: InSight Initiative

Applications for InSight Initiative Summit 2 Sought

By: MLA Headquarters
Fri June 15, 2018
The InSight Initiative Task Force is pleased to announce that applications are now being sought for the second InSight Initiative Summit, “Meeting the Evolving Information Needs of Library Stakeholders,” to be held September 27–28. Applications for health sciences librarians are being accepted throu
Blog link: InSight Initiative

The Scholarly Kitchen: MLA InSight - A Constructive Forum Emerges

By: Shalu Gillum, AHIP
Thu May 24, 2018
The Scholarly Kitchen post by Shalu Gillum (University of Central Florida College of Medicine) and Steven Heffner (Wolters Kluwer) on the MLA InSight Initiative, an open circle partnership between librarians and industry partners to advance thinking on health information.
Blog link: InSight Initiative

Report from the InSight Initiative Summit: What Can Librarians and Vendors Learn from “Pirate” Sites?

By: Harold S Bright, IV, AHIP
Tue May 15, 2018
Much of the time at the InSight Initiative Summit 1, held in March, was devoted to small-group discussions of issues that both librarians and vendors regard as challenging. This is the second of four articles that synthesize key points from the discussions.
Blog link: InSight Initiative

Report from the InSight Initiative Summit: Thinking about Security and the Future of IP Authentication

By: Gerald J. Perry, AHIP, FMLA
Mon April 30, 2018
Much of the time at the InSight Initiative Summit 1, held in March, was devoted to small-group discussions of issues that both librarians and vendors regard as challenging. This is the first of four articles that synthesize key points from the discussions.
Blog link: InSight Initiative

InSight Initiative Launched, Summit Planned for Early 2018

By: Gerald J. Perry, AHIP, FMLA
Fri September 15, 2017
Read about the InSight Initiative, MLA's new effort to engage with publishers and vendors serving our membership.
Blog link: InSight Initiative

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