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Article: The Essential Peter Drucker.
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- Information Outlook
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- November 1, 2001
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The SLA's motto, "Putting Knowledge to Work," could also be the personal calling card for Peter Drucker.
Drucker, the keynote speaker at the 2002 SLA annual conference in Los Angeles, CA, is in many ways the ultimate "knowledge worker." In fact, he coined that term more than 30 years ago and has been writing about the related topics of knowledge and information since the mid-1960's.
His recent collection, The Essential Drucker, has dozens of pages about knowledge and information, and most of it is directly applicable to our work as librarians and information professionals. Reading through Drucker's works on these topics provides an almost Biblical feel. ...