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HSLANJ 2014
Analysis:
 Strengths
 Weaknesses
 Opportunities
 Threats
Your competencies
Your skill-sets
Your attitude
Your education
 Opportunities
 Threats
 Your competencies- what are you really
good at?
 Your weaknesses- where can you improve?
 What opportunities can you identify for your
role as an embedded librarian?
 What threats might keep you from
accomplishing your goals?
I would like to be embedded in the Internal
Medicine Resident’s Journal Club.
1. Strengths- I know the students are having
trouble finding articles in the print
journals- in fact, they seem to have a
disconnect about online and print journals.
It’s as if they think the online journals are
regular web sites. I have already composed
a PowerPoint on how to find print journal
articles in the library that I know will be
useful to them. I also know their teacher.
2. Weaknesses- I don’t know if I can convince
the teacher to let me help the students. I also
think that she is unaware of how much trouble
they are having. I don’t want her to think I am
criticizing her teaching either.
3. Opportunities- it is early enough in the
semester to have a big impact on this group.
4. Threats- the teacher may not have time in
her schedule to bring me into her class.
There is an American Heart Association Heart
Walk in your community.
 You could create a community partnership by
offering to provide consumer health information
to them for their web site/ Facebook page.
 You could offer to host a link to possible donors
or participants on your library web site.
What would be your SWOT analysis for this
situation?
 You
 Your organization AND your library
 List your Tools:
What has worked well in the past?
What would be the easiest way to get started?
List all your possibles…opportunities, ideas….
 Take the path of least resistance
 Partner with your favorite people first
 Be persistent and patient…remember how much
 you can help them!
 People who know you care about their
 projects/classes/students will always listen
 Most people need the help of librarians
 When you partner, do it shoulder to shoulder
 Find out what they need, then offer to help
them
 If you encounter resistance, stress that you can
assist them with their projects / goals.
 Visibility
 Maximum Impact
 Accessibiltiy

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Embedded SWOT- Getting Started

  • 2. Analysis:  Strengths  Weaknesses  Opportunities  Threats
  • 3. Your competencies Your skill-sets Your attitude Your education
  • 5.  Your competencies- what are you really good at?  Your weaknesses- where can you improve?  What opportunities can you identify for your role as an embedded librarian?  What threats might keep you from accomplishing your goals?
  • 6. I would like to be embedded in the Internal Medicine Resident’s Journal Club. 1. Strengths- I know the students are having trouble finding articles in the print journals- in fact, they seem to have a disconnect about online and print journals. It’s as if they think the online journals are regular web sites. I have already composed a PowerPoint on how to find print journal articles in the library that I know will be useful to them. I also know their teacher.
  • 7. 2. Weaknesses- I don’t know if I can convince the teacher to let me help the students. I also think that she is unaware of how much trouble they are having. I don’t want her to think I am criticizing her teaching either. 3. Opportunities- it is early enough in the semester to have a big impact on this group. 4. Threats- the teacher may not have time in her schedule to bring me into her class.
  • 8. There is an American Heart Association Heart Walk in your community.  You could create a community partnership by offering to provide consumer health information to them for their web site/ Facebook page.  You could offer to host a link to possible donors or participants on your library web site. What would be your SWOT analysis for this situation?
  • 9.  You  Your organization AND your library
  • 10.  List your Tools:
  • 11. What has worked well in the past?
  • 12. What would be the easiest way to get started?
  • 13. List all your possibles…opportunities, ideas….
  • 14.  Take the path of least resistance  Partner with your favorite people first  Be persistent and patient…remember how much  you can help them!  People who know you care about their  projects/classes/students will always listen  Most people need the help of librarians  When you partner, do it shoulder to shoulder  Find out what they need, then offer to help them  If you encounter resistance, stress that you can assist them with their projects / goals.
  • 15.
  • 16.  Visibility  Maximum Impact  Accessibiltiy