Master OL/LOC*** Bibliography, from the LO eMail list LO26797

From: Richard Webster (webster.1@osu.edu)
Date: 06/09/01


Harriett & other LO Colleagues - replying to LO26780

I agree with Rick's "wonderful offer" note on Harriett's message, and will
also be pleased to participate in this project. What did Nike used to
say: "[Let's] just do it!" -- with perhaps a bit of reflection and
idea-sharing about how to do it to obtain maximum benefit to all those
interested:

"Share the work ideas:"

1) Who does what? Harriett - choose the year you'd like to start with,
e.g. 2001; I'll take the next earlier year and invite other search-minded
colleagues to follow in "years previous." This could work if we share
with the LO list the year we are working on, covering both Amazon and
Pegasus for a given year I assume.

2) Can we agree on a "complete bibliographic form?" I use Jones, John G.
[author]. _(title preceded and followed by underlined space)_ [because
different eMail systems react differently to italics, quotation marks,
etc. Publisher-copyright year. [I find, with the rapid worldwide
consolidation of publishers, that publisher's city (place) is well-nigh
beside the point.]

        Rick - do you have a bib. format convention you find widely used
in your OL/LOC work?

[Host's Note: No. No bib. convention. For the LO list, it will have to be
text/plain. If you want to create html, I can put it on the web, and then
you can use italics, etc. ..Rick]

3) "Other than LO list books." Suggest we also be on the lookout for
books other that those listed on the LO list that we have found useful (I
have several hundred collected over MANY years); and that these be
identified as "found useful by [entry-maker]" and added to the "LO list,"
perhaps with a sentence or two blurb about how/why it was useful in our
work and learning.

4) Annotations to bibliographic entry: a sentence or few about the book;
from our own experience, or reading the reviews at Amazon.com, or from
reviews we have found in other sources. If entries are posted to the LO
list there are likely to be useful additions to whatever a searcher has to
say about a given book. Should make for some interesting "comparing of
experiences" with many authors and their work.

5) *** "Master OL/LOC Bibliography..." -- where post for maximum
usefulness? My vote is our LO list as Rick has offered, and the Society
for Organizational Learning (SoL). I am a Research Member of SoL; urging
just this kind of applied "research and development - R&D" project as a
"good thing" for my SoL Research Committee colleagues and the governing
SoL Council of Trustees to support with enthusiasm! I hope they will act
wisely and creatively, supporting this outreach effort that places a
"Master OL/LOC Bibliography..." on the SoL web site.

*** I urge SoL decision-makers' to support this service role, suggesting
with some experience and high confidence, that NO other organization is as
well placed to serve organizational learning and building learning
organizations and communities -- within and across enterprises -- (OL/LOC
for short) -- not the Academy of Management (in spite of its new journal
_Learning & Education_, Editor - Professor Roy Lewicki, OH State
University, Associate...Editor Steve Stenner <Stenner.1@osu.edu>), not AQP
(recently affiliated with ASQ), not ASQ, ASTD, ISPI, the OD Network, or
SHRM. Who did I miss?

        Note to Host Rick - please forward this message, edited as your
experience suggests would be useful, to all the "right people" at SoL;
particularly those likely to pass the "PEACE" test for creative ideas in
action ("CIA" if the world needs another initialism): Proactive,
Entrepreneurial, Assertive, Creative, therefore Effective in not only
engaging in the "dance of change," but in moving beyond present
conventions (of that dance) to new and better ways of improving
performance and results in human organizations -- thereby making the world
better.

6) What else needs attention as we begin this work?

Best to all - Dick Webster

Richard S. Webster, Ph.D. - President
Personal Resources Management Institute (PRMI)
709 Wesley Court - The Village Green - Worthington, OH 43085-3558
eMail <webster.1@osu.edu>, tel 614-433-7144, fax 614-433-71-88
***
PRM Institute's R&D projects and programs address the paradigm shift to
"learning," from "training, instruction and teaching." "Organizational
learning," developing "learning organizations and communities" (OL/LOC)
and "Action Learning" (AL) are key resources. PRMI is a 501-c-3
non-profit enterprise, founded 1978.

>>>on 6/6/01 HJRobles@aol.com wrote:

> One of the things I most appreciate about the LO listserv is the
> recommendations members make regarding books that they have found useful.
> Unfortunately, I get overwhelmed at times and I know I have missed many
> references. I was wondering if it is worth while to cull the titles of
> books from the e-mails and put together a bibliography? If anyone else
> would find that beneficial, I would be willing to work on it. I'm
> assuming that I could work my way back through the archives. Am I
> underestimating the magnitude of the task? Harriett.
>
> Harriett J. Robles
> hjrobles@aol.com
>
> [Host's Note: Harriet, that is a wonderful offer and I will be delighted
> to publish your compilation.
>
> As a starter for this, or for anyone else wishing to find books mentioned
> on the LO list... Try this link
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=amazon.com+site%3Awww.learning-org.com
>
> This is a search on the LO site for all msgs mentioning "amazon". It works
> because the word "amazon" is rarely mentioned on the LO list except in the
> links I add at the bottom of the message when a book is mentioned.
>
> You might pick up a few more book mentions with
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=pegasuscom+site%3Awww.learning-org.com
>
> ..for mentions of books offered by Pegasus Communications.
>
> .. Rick]

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