Guy St. Clair serves as President and Consulting Specialist for Knowledge Services at SMR International, a New York-based strategy consulting company. A past-president of the Special Libraries Association, Guy St. Clair is Series Editor for the Information Services Management Series, published by K G Saur. He has written several important titles for the series, including Entrepreneurial Librarianship: The Key to Effective Information Services; Total Quality Management in Information Services; Power and Influence: Enhancing Information Services Within the Organization; and Customer Service in the Information Environment. Other books written by Guy St. Clair include Change Management in Action: Industry Leaders Describe How They Manage Change in Information Services, published by the Special Libraries Association in 1999. He is currently engaged in writing a narrative history of SLA for the association’s centenary in 2009.

In his newest book, Beyond Degrees: Professional Learning for Knowledge Services (K.G. Saur, 2003), St. Clair identifies the coming new information profession as Knowledge Services, which he defines as the convergence of information management, knowledge management, and strategic (performance-centered) learning. In “Knowledge Services and SLA’s History: An Interview with Guy St. Clair,” published in Information Outlook in September, 2003, St. Clair describes how the historical role of the Special Libraries Association (www.sla.org) has led the larger information management community to focus on Knowledge Services.

A native of Virginia and a long-time resident of New York, St. Clair has for many years maintained a strong affection for his adopted city, and he takes particular interest in New York’s culture, intellectual vigor, and its history. In the late 1990s, St. Clair was commissioned to write A Venerable and Cherished Institution: The University Club of New York, 1865-1990 (New York, NY: The University Club, 1991), published to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the founding of one of the city’s most important cultural organizations. He continues to pursue his interest in New York through his affiliations with several of the city’s various cultural institutions.

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