Maximize Information

Maximize Information: Turning Information into Advantage.

Provides the following services:

• offers training and search services using advanced discovery techniques for mining published and grey literature.
• offers training and advice in Knowledge Management techniques for organizing and retrieving captured knowledge within organizations.
• offers training in developing competitive advantage techniques such as autoalerts for corporate and industry environmental scans.
• offers workshops in internal communication techniques for maximum sharing and utilization of corporate knowledge.
• offers advice on state-of-the-art software for corporate knowledge management.
• provides overviews of current Information Lifecycle considerations for all participants in the information sphere (preservation, digitization, metadata creation, records management).

David Stern, the founder and principal of this firm, has degrees in Biological Sciences (University of Connecticut), History & Philosophy of Science (Indiana University), and Library Science (Indiana University). He was the Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources at Brown University from March, 2008 through December, 2009, and the Director of Science Libraries and Information Services at Yale University from 1995 through January 2008. He has also worked as a general librarian, a medical librarian, a science librarian in centralized and departmental libraries, and as a library administrator. In addition, he has taught library science graduate courses (University of Illinois and Southern Connecticut State University) and serves as a consultant and advisor to a number of professional societies and commercial publishers and online services.

David served on the Board of Directors (2000-2003) and as the Chair of the Knowledge Management Division (2007-2008) of the Special Libraries Association. He is now a candidate for 2012 President of SLA, the leading international library association of over 14,000 librarians serving specialized populations of researchers.

David also served as Editor of the journal Science and Technology Libraries from 2005-2007. His research involves electronic retrieval and transmission of data, focused primarily upon scholars workstations. He was recently involved in the development of end-user search systems for both local and remote hosts, including a web-based expert systems librarian emulator and linking of paleobotany fulltext material with related museum and researcher databases. He is also working on the development of standards and cost models for federated full-text search and retrieval systems.

His resume and publications include over a dozen journal articles, several book chapters, the book Guide to Information Sources in the Physical Sciences (Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, 2000), and his two edited special issues of Science and Technology Libraries entitled Digital Libraries: Philosophies, technical design considerations, and example scenarios and Competencies for Science Librarians.

He has been a speaker at conferences of ALA, SLA, AAAS, SSP, ASIS, NASIG, Online, InfoToday, Charleston Conference, CESSE, NFAIS, and the Library of Congress.

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