Strategy. Intelligence. Answers.

Maximizing Return on Investment from your Organization's Information Center Operations.

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ENGAGE THE MAVEN

Strategy

Creating a roadmap to achieve the highest value from your organization’s information assets.

Intelligence

Assessing current resources against desired future achievements to make the most intelligent use of your current and potential new information assets.

Answers

Empowering you to mine your information investments – people and technologies – for the answers you need.

Who is Answer Maven?

Farm raised country girl. Information professional. Thought Leader. As comfortable in the middle of nowhere as on the streets of D.C. and Chicago.

Providing Answers on the go!

Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn’t tell us what we want or need to know.

— Richard Saul Wurman

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.

— T. S. Eliot

We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self-generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.

— John Naisbitt

FROM THE ANSWER BLOG

Leadership and Camaraderie in Times of Crisis

Apr 26, 2020

It has been quite some time since I came to this space to offer thoughts and reflections. As I sit in my living room, looking out at the rain and catching up on podcasts, I am feeling quite reflective. There have been a multitude of articles, podcasts and more... read more

Maximizing the Value of Law Librarians in KM

Oct 20, 2016

First, a note of explanation – I have gotten out of the habit of blogging on a regular basis, but I keep a running list of things I’ve seen that I want to discuss. So today, I offer up my reaction to one of those items. Earlier this year, Patrick... read more