"The times certainly are a changin'."
(Apologies to Bob Dylan and The Bank of Montreal)

The Editors

On Thursday, October 19th, the SLA and Knight Ridder presented a distance learning programme entitled Getting Out of the Box: The Knowledge Management Opportunity. This excellent presentation gave participants some tools to analyse their current situations, then reposition themselves to become knowledge managers.

If knowledge is experience that can be applied to a new problem, project or experience, and can answer the question of what we do to address specific issues and strategies, then the new role of the Knowledge Manager can break information professionals out of the Corporate Library box and get them into the larger organization. In this way we can expand our library skills from the traditional applications into the larger knowledge management context and position ourselves as resources whose commitment is to facilitate information exchange and market the value of increased knowledge transfer and new knowledge products.

Many SLA members are already using their library skills in non-traditional ways. And even traditional library settings are changing the way they do business. In this issue of the Courier, several of our Chapter members present their experiences, their thoughts on change, their ways of moving out of the traditional library methods of doing things, etc. Please note that Lorna Luke would like to do an in-depth study of librarians in non-traditional settings and contact her if your experiences are "out of the box".

• Where Have All the Librarians Gone? Alternative Careers for Library Professionals
• Confessions of an Info-Junkie: My Non-Traditional Use of Library Skills
• The Non-Traditional Career: Is There Really Such a Thing?
• Changing Times at the Legislative Library
• Managing Change in the Special Library