BEST PRACTICES 2014 - 2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS Like LexisNexis for Government on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LexisNexisforGovernment) Subscribe to the Government Info Pro Blog Introducing a New Success Framework for Information Professionals By Bruce Rosenstein, Author, Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way: Developing and Applying a Forward-Focused Mindset “Thou Shalt… Raise thy visibility, now!”: when mandates made it imperative to provide total public access to faculty work, NPS librarians were ready By Ann Jacobson, Reference, Instruction & Outreach Librarian, and Irene Berry, Digital Services Librarian, Dudley Knox Library, Naval Postgraduate School Geek Squad for Libraries: Custom Information Solutions through the NIH Library Informationist Service By James King, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Library, Division of Library Services, Office of Research Services, NIH Responding to the Challenges of Recruitment, Retention, and Succession at the Information Services Office of the National Institute of Standards and Technology By Mary-Deirdre Coraggio and Rosa Liu, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD Professional Competencies For Collegial Information Sharing Apply To Government Information Professionals, Too! By Lee Lipscomb, Assistant Librarian, Federal Judicial Center Blueprint for Success: A Federal Medical Librarian Checklist By Nancy A. Clark, Director, Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Library Network Office; Cornelia E. Camerer, Chief, Library Service, North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health Service; Teresa R. Coady, Library Director, Orlando VA Medical Center i BEST PRACTICES 2014 - 2015 Public Records Resources Online: How to Find Everything There Is to Know About "Mr./Ms. X" By Jennifer L. McMahan, Deputy Director, Library Staff at U.S. Department of Justice If I Had a Hammer - Lessons in Knowledge Management By David E. McBee, Command Librarian, US Army Corps of Engineers Adobe Connect – Distance Learning Here We Come! By Kera Winburn, Law Librarian, U.S. Department of Justice DOJ Libraries’ Book Group: A New Adventure By Kera Winburn, Law Librarian, U.S. Department of Justice The Easiest Thing in the World… By Jeffrey Lofton, Program Specialist, Library of Congress Office of the Associate Librarian for Library Services How Librarians Are Social Platforms To Monitor Federal Agencies and Their Work By Barbie E. Keiser, President, Barbie E. Keiser, Inc. Leveraging the Personal Branding Trend in Library Communications By Christine Olson, MLS, MAS, FSLA, Chris Olson & Associates Changing Job Responsibilities: Building New Skills and Learning to Adapt By Rebecca Aftowicz, Reference Librarian, Comptroller of the Currency Library “I’m helping To Put a Man on The Moon” By Aileen M. J. Marshall, M.L.I.S., M.A. One Little Free Library By Kim Cramer, Government Solutions Consultant, LexisNexis Open Government Data By Angela J.A. Kent, Reference Librarian, Texas State Library and Archives Commission ii BEST PRACTICES 2014 - 2015 Telecommuting Tips By Chris Zammarelli, Metadata Librarian at State Department Office of American Spaces via ATSG Corporation Rise of the Databrarian: resources for librarians to reskill and retool for research data management services By Colleen DeLory, Editor, Elsevier Library Connect The Library Connect Yearbook 2015 Roots, Branches, and Librarianship Sketch By Bob Farina, MSLIS, Entrepreneur, Minor Potentate of Logogrammatic Research & Analysis, Data Wrangler, etc. New Skills, New Service By Lois Ireland, Manager, Library & Business Information Services, Freddie Mac, McLean, VA Volunteers—Lessons We Can Learn from the National Park Service By Pat Alderman, Government Librarian, Retired Veterans History Project: Helping Families Preserve Their Strong Roots for New Branches By Lisa A. Taylor, Liaison Specialist, Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Time: The Enemy of Effort By Joanna Philpotts, Reference Librarian, USMC Research Library When a Library Branches Out, It Expands Its Impact By Lisa Haakon Pogue, MSLIS iPhones, iPads, iPods, Oh My! By Melanie Michaelson, Law Librarian, and Diane Smith, Librarian, U.S. Department of Justice iii BEST PRACTICES 2014 - 2015 Military Reference & Research: Sources and Resources Posted by Marie Kaddell, LexisNexis Senor Government Information Professional on the Government Info Pro Non-Military Sites for Military Resources (December 11, 2014, Military Libraries Group, DC/SLA Military Reference & Research: Sources and Resources, hosted by FEDLINK.) Presented by Marie Kaddell, LexisNexis Senior LexisNexis Government Information Professional Follow Up to the 2015 LexisNexis Librarian Round Table Event at the National Press Club Posted by Marie Kaddell, LexisNexis Senior Government Information Professional on the Government Info Pro Follow Up to LexisNexis Government Info Pro Smart Learning July 2014 Webinar: Social Media Monitoring and Research Posted by Marie Kaddell, LexisNexis Senior Government Information Professional on the Government Info Pro Social Media – Track It, Search It, Manage It – Handout Presented by Marie Kaddell, LexisNexis Senior Government Information Professional 60 Government Sites in 60 Minutes Program Handout at #SLA2014 Posted by Marie Kaddell, LexisNexis Senior Government Information Professional on the Government Info Pro 60 Government Sites in 60 Minutes (Presented at SLA 2014, Vancouver, B.C.) Presented by Marie Kaddell, Senior LexisNexis Government Information Professional, and Chris Vestal, LexisNexis Government Solutions Consultant, LexisNexis Follow-Up to the 2014 National Press Club Event for Government Librarians Hosted by LexisNexis Posted by Marie Kaddell, LexisNexis Senior Government Information Professional on the Government Info Pro iv BEST PRACTICES 2014 - 2015 Have Confidence in Your Research with LexisNexis U.S. Code Service Posted by Marie Kaddell, LexisNexis Senior Government Information Professional on the Government Info Pro Follow Up to the 2015 LexisNexis Librarian Round Table Event at the National Press Club Posted by Marie Kaddell, LexisNexis Senior Government Information Professional on the Government Info Pro The Federal Library Bibliographic Record Analysis: Creating a Unified View of One of the Nation's Greatest Assets By John Barton, Program Specialist, Library of Congress and Steve Short, Program Specialist, Library of Congress Putting the Focus on Professional Development By Jennifer McMahan, Deputy Director, Department of Justice Library Real Libraries, Virtual Transitions By Bibio Latte, Community Virtual Library Board of Advisors Park Ranger Speaker Series: The Battle of Mobile Bay Submitted by George Franchois, Director, U.S. Department of the Interior Library Park Ranger Speaker Series: The Burning of Washington Submitted by George Franchois, Director, U.S. Department of the Interior Library Park Ranger Speaker Series: The Election of 1864 Submitted by George Franchois, Director, U.S. Department of the Interior Library Park Ranger Speaker Series: The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Submitted by George Franchois, Director, U.S. Department of the Interior Library v BEST PRACTICES 2014 - 2015 Park Ranger Speaker Series: Matter of Peace Submitted by George Franchois, Director, U.S. Department of the Interior Library Park Ranger Speaker Series: The McMillan Plan Submitted by George Franchois, Director, U.S. Department of the Interior Library Park Ranger Speaker Series: Refighting Gettysburg Submitted by George Franchois, Director, U.S. Department of the Interior Library Park Ranger Speaker Series: Vicksburg Submitted by George Franchois, Director, U.S. Department of the Interior Library 2013 Best Practices for Government Libraries 2012 Best Practices for Government Libraries 2011 Best Practices for Government Libraries vi BEST PRACTICES 2014 - 2015 LIKE THE LEXISNEXIS FOR GOVERNMENT PAGE ON FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/LexisNexisforGovernment The LexisNexis for Government Facebook page is maintained by a team of LexisNexis Government Consultants and will provide you with current, targeted information especially for those in government. 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