Join the CI Division for today’s webinar:
Avoiding Potholes and Landmines: How to Effectively Win the Hearts and Minds of the C-Suite with Scott Leeb

Time: June 4, 2013 from 1pm to 2pm
Location: Virtual
Organized By: Anna F. Shallenberger

Event Description:
Free Webinar – Best Practices – Strategic Intelligence
Registration https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/832747566

Information professionals do great work. However, when it comes to gaining traction, visibility and influence with senior executives, we tend to fall woefully short. Sadly, in many cases we are our own worst enemy – we fail to undertake basic activities that if we executed on smartly we would greatly aid our cause. This webinar examines why we fall short and what we can do to establish credibility and influence within the C-suite.

Learning objectives:

• Identify common communication pitfalls
• Develop strategies to gain better traction in the C-suite
• Learn new processes and frameworks to influence executives

For more information on upcoming Competitive Intelligence webinars, see the Competitive Intelligence Division’s site.

• Webinar: How to Build an Early Warning System to Harness Predictability and Win in the Market – 12 Jun 2013 – 12:00
• Webinar: Legislative/Regulatory Monitoring for CI & MI [market intel] – 11 Jul 2013 – 00:00
• Webinar: Proven Analytic Methods: How to help your company perform its analysis – without the paralysis! – 22 Aug 2013 – 00:00
• Webinar: ROI of CI – 24 Oct 2013 – 00:00

Associate Director of the Hospitality, Labor and Management Library – 19935 (re-posted)
https://cornellu.taleo.net/careersection/10164/jobsearch.ftl

The Hospitality, Labor, and Management (HLM) Library seeks candidates for the position of Associate Director, who will bring their philosophy and ideas into a developing organization and help shape its direction. The successful candidate will lead a team of librarians and staff providing research support, instruction, and collection development across three highly-ranked Cornell schools; provide support in and serve as liaison to the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management (Johnson); and actively participate in HLM leadership.

The HLM Library serves Cornell’s specialized business and labor schools, composed of Johnson, the School of Hotel Administration (SHA), and the Industrial & Labor Relations School (ILR), with more than 1,800 undergraduates, 1,400 graduate students, 150 full-time resident faculty, and extensive distance education, executive, and extension programs. Johnson recently ranked seventh among US MBA programs in BusinessWeek, while the specialized SHA and ILR schools are the top institutions in their fields. More information on the HLM Library can be found here: http://hlm.library.cornell.edu/.

Reporting to the Harriet Morel Oxman Director of the HLM Library, the Associate Director will:

• Manage a team of 10 librarians and staff providing research support, instruction, and collection development to the three Cornell schools supported by HLM.
• Serve as the lead library liaison to Johnson, understanding and communicating the needs of the school’s students and faculty in the context of the broader university environment.
• Serve on the HLM leadership group.
• Provide direct research support and instruction to the Johnson community.

The Associate Director will be an innovative, enthusiastic professional with a dedication to building, leading, and participating in teams, drawing on and contributing to the expertise of colleagues. Additionally, the successful candidate will:

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and willingness for strategic experimentation.
• Understand the changing research process and the need for user focused services.
• Model and maintain the HLM Library’s core values of collaboration, excellence, flexibility, innovation, integrity, and service.

Qualifications

Required:

• MLIS or equivalent graduate degree.
• At least 4 years of experience as a librarian in an academic or special library.
• Strong leadership skills, forward-looking and able to communicate a clear vision.
• Successful supervisory experience.
• Excellent problem solving, analytical, quantitative, and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to resolve competing demands in an environment of fast-paced change.
• Strong collegial, interpersonal, and written and oral communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA or advanced degree in management, economics, or closely related field.
• Knowledge of business resources and librarianship.
• Experience/training in organizational development.

Thinking about exporting, but don’t know where to start?  As part of World Trade Month, SBA will host a Google+ Hangout on May 22. The hangout will highlight ways that business can use federal government resources to increase exports.

Date: Wednesday, 22 May
Time: 3:00pm ET
Where: Watch the Hangout live at SBA’s Google+ page or SBA’s YouTube Channel

Who:

• Dario Gomez, U.S. Small Business Administration, Associate Administrator for International Trade
• Antwaun Griffin, U.S. Department of Commerce- International Trade Administration, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Domestic Operations
• Dontai Smalls, UPS, Vice President for Public Affairs
• Al Youngworth, CEO of Rekluse and SBA’s Exporter of the Year
• Brian Kim, BBCN Bank Los Angeles and SBA’s Export Lender of the Year

Join the Conversation: Submit your questions via Twitter using the hashtag #TradeChat

Find more information for small businesses online at SBA’s Community.

https://www.sujobopps.com/postings/49336

Syracuse University Library seeks an energetic, team-oriented librarian with at least two years of professional experience, excellent technological skills, a strong service orientation, and a background in business or a related field to serve as a subject specialist and reference librarian for business and related subject areas. This individual will work with a team of librarians and support staff in an active, student-centered research library environment. The Syracuse University Library, with collections of nearly three million volumes, is actively pursuing electronic and digital initiatives as part of its strategic directions and initiatives.

https://cornellu.taleo.net/careersection/10164/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=19870

Business Research Librarian for the Nestlé Library

The Nestlé Library seeks creative, energetic, forward-thinking candidates for the professional position of Business Research Librarian. The library serves Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration (SHA), a business management program with a focus on the hospitality industry, including operations, marketing, finance, management, and real estate. In addition to traditional library services, the Nestlé Library welcomes candidates with a keen eye towards innovative and user-focused programs to promote the library to SHA students, faculty, and staff. Above all, candidates must be excited by the opportunity to develop the programs and services needed for the 21^st century digital information environment at the premier hospitality management school.

The successful candidate will provide research, instruction, collection development, and outreach services to the SHA community as one of two librarians in the Nestlé Library.  The Nestlé librarians are members of the larger research and learning services team within the Hospitality, Labor, and Management (HLM) Library, which serves Cornell’s specialized business and labor schools, including the Industrial and Labor Relations School and the Johnson Graduate School of Management.

The School of Hotel Administration integrates a diverse group of undergraduate, professional, and graduate students, faculty, staff, and practitioners to provide a unique educational experience. As the only Ivy League business management program to focus on the hospitality industry, SHA actively prepares students to be leaders in a dynamic global industry.

Responsibilities: 

• Reporting to the Coordinator of Research Services, the SHA Research Librarian is responsible for:
• Providing direct research assistance to the School of Hotel Administration community;
• Designing, teaching  and assessing instruction sessions, including working with faculty to develop curriculum-integrated instructional programs;
• Providing outreach using traditional and innovative methods;
• Developing and maintaining an expertise in hospitality and business information resources;
• Collaborating with key stakeholders in the Hospitality, Labor, and Management Library; and
• Participating actively in professional organizations, library, and university committees, and scholarly pursuits.

Qualifications

Requirements: 

• An ALA-accredited MLS or equivalent graduate degree.
• At least 1 year of experience in an academic or special library.
• Experience using and teaching others to use library resources, databases, etc.
• Strong analytical, quantitative, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
• Ability to resolve competing demands in an environment of fast-paced change.
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and written/oral communication skills.
• Evidence of a strong service ethic and customer-focused thinking.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively in a service-oriented environment.
• Model and maintain the HLM Library’s core values of collaboration, excellence, flexibility, innovation, integrity, and service.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Significant public services experience in a business library.
• Advanced degree or coursework in hospitality, business, or related fields.
• Experience with emerging technologies and their application in libraries and higher education.

Corning Incorporated – Business/Technical Information Center Summer Help

Availability: mid May to late August (flexible within this time frame)
Hours: Up to 40 hours per week, within hours of 8AM-5PM Monday-Friday time period
Salary: commensurate with experience
Broad Functions:
This position offers a self-motivated individual experience in a corporate information center providing services to R&D scientists and engineers. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to experience aspects of the job of information professional at a Fortune 500 company with projects focusing on resource allocation, data analysis and metrics for decision making.

Specific Duties:
Duties will fall into two basic categories, with other duties and projects as assigned

Collection Development Responsibilities, including

•  Print collection – The inventory/weeding of the physical collection is the top priority. Assist with metrics for analysis of existing print collection and complete the updating of catalog. Document decision making and workflow process.
• eBooks – usage analysis of existing titles and perform gap analysis to identify potential resources for purchase
• Analyzing COUNTER usage statistics for electronic journals and develop recommendations for 2014 renewal decisions

User Services and Instruction, including

• Developing and updating topical guides and tutorials
• Developing content for intranet portal – resource updates/developments (training opportunities, new content, etc.)

Qualifications:
All applicants must be enrolled in a master’s degree program in library/information science (preferred) or pursuing an undergraduate degree in information science. In addition, the successful candidate must have the ability to manage and prioritize their workload and must be able to work both independently and cooperatively in a team environment. Other requirements include:

• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and basic HTML
• Basic understanding of metadata standards
• Some projects will require physical labor – lifting boxes, moving materials, etc.
• Flexibility, accuracy, and attention to detail in work

Preference will be given to applicants with the following skills:

• Ability to create data crosswalks
• Ability to create databases using Microsoft Access
• Ability to write macros

Application Procedure:
Applicants may submit a letter of application, resume and professional references via email to tic@corning.com. If also seeking internship credit, please include documentation required by the crediting institution with application material for review.

SLA CI Webinar

Getting In-Depth Competitive Intelligence on Private Companies

Date: Tuesday, 30 April
Time: 1:00 – 2:00pm EDT
Registration: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/241237654

More often than not disruptive innovations are born behind the walls of privately held companies. Given this how do you crack the code on these companies strategies? Additionally, how do you obtain some degree of early warning about how successful these companies might be in the future?

During this talk you’ll learn about a wide range of open source intelligence (OSINT) and human intelligence techniques (HUMINT) that you can use to answer the above questions.

We’ll cover:

• OSINT Assets – what can you learn from the web that’s meaningful and what can be aggregated to produce greater insight
• HUMINT Assets – who should you talk to and how do you get a hold of them effectively.
• Benchmarking –  how to acquire or interact with competitor products and services in a meaningful way

We’ll also close with a discussion of the ethical considerations companies face when conducting private company research as well as what is typically in and out of bounds when conducting private company oriented research efforts.

Finally all attendees will receive a copy of one of Cascade Insights’ Framework Fight Club Handbooks.  Each handbook provides a wealth of competitive intelligence frameworks that you can use to synthesize the intelligence you’ve collected.

Presented by Sean Campbell
Co-owner – Cascade Insights
Sean@cascadeinsights.com

Associate Director of the Hospitality, Labor and Management Library-19935
Applications requested by May 5, 2013.

Description: The Hospitality, Labor, and Management (HLM) Library seeks experienced business library managers as candidates for the position of Associate Director.

The successful candidate will lead a team of librarians and staff providing research support, instruction, and collection development across three highly-ranked Cornell schools; provide support in and serve as liaison to the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management (Johnson); and actively participate in HLM leadership. The Associate Director will be a leader who can bring their own philosophy and ideas into a developing organization and help shape its direction.

The HLM Library serves Cornell’s specialized business and labor schools, composed of the School of Hotel Administration (SHA), Industrial & Labor Relations School (ILR), and Johnson, with more than 1,800 undergraduates, 1,400 graduate students, 150 full-time resident faculty, and extensive distance education, executive, and extension programs. Johnson recently ranked seventh among US MBA programs in BusinessWeek, while the specialized ILR and SHA schools are the top institutions in their fields.

Reporting to the Harriet Morel Oxman Director of the HLM Library, the Associate Director will:

• Manage a team of 11 librarians and staff providing research support, instruction, and collection development to the three Cornell schools supported by HLM.
• Serve as the lead library liaison to Johnson, understanding and communicating the needs of the school’s students and faculty in the context of the broader university environment.
• Serve on the HLM leadership group.
• Provide direct research support and instruction to the Johnson community.
• Participate actively in professional organizations, library and university committees, and scholarly pursuits.

The Associate Director will be an innovative, enthusiastic professional with a dedication to building, leading, and participating in teams, drawing on and contributing to the expertise of colleagues. Additionally, the successful candidate will:

• Have an understanding of standard and traditional library practices, but also eagerly embrace change and opportunities that new technologies and techniques bring to the field.
• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and willingness for strategic experimentation.
• Understand the changing research process and the need for user focused services.
• Model and maintain the HLM Library’s core values of collaboration, excellence, flexibility, innovation, integrity, and service.

Qualifications:

Required:

• MLIS or equivalent graduate degree.
• At least 4 years of experience as a business librarian in an academic or special library, including at least 2 years of supervisory experience.
• Strong problem solving, analytical, quantitative, and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to resolve competing demands in an environment of fast-paced change.
• Strong collegial, interpersonal, and written and oral communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA or advanced degree in management, economics, or closely related field.
• Experience with organizational development.

Please include a cover letter, resume, and the names, phone numbers, and addresses for three references. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Salary will be competitive and commensurate with experience. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Apply online.