Library Staffing for the Future

Library Staffing for the Future
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2015-12-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781785604980

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This latest volume contains approaches from researchers around the world. The chapters explore such issues as skills-building and other professional development activities, changing demographic profiles of staff, changing modes of resource provision, succession planning, remote work, and planning for Linked Data.

The Expert Library

The Expert Library
Author: Scott Walter
Publsiher: Assoc of Cllge & Rsrch Libr
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780838985519

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In the midst of a decade of extraordinary change in academic libraries--change driven by information technology, new approaches to teaching and learning, new models for scholarly communication, and new expectations for the ways we will discover, share, and make use of information--there is nothing so important to the future of the library and its continued place at the heart of the academic enterprise than its people and the expertise that they bring to the design, development, and delivery of library services. What will those services be, and who will provide them? The Expert Library provides an overview of the changing dynamics entailed in recruiting and retaining academic library professionals for the 21st century and contains fresh thinking and insights into what will be required to ensure continued library relevance and success through its people. --Publisher's description.

A Strong Future for Public Library Use and Employment

A Strong Future for Public Library Use and Employment
Author: José-Marie Griffiths
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2011
Genre: Library surveys
ISBN: 0838993079

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Hope and a Future

Hope and a Future
Author: Renee F. Hill
Publsiher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2021-04-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781838676438

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In a world that often questions the value of libraries and librarianship, this collection of reflective essays and future-focused research emphasizes the ways in which being an information professional continues to be a rewarding and vital profession.

Emotional Intelligence and Critical Thinking for Library Leaders

Emotional Intelligence and Critical Thinking for Library Leaders
Author: Gary L. Shaffer
Publsiher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2020-03-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1789738725

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As the use of libraries changes, leaders need to improve their emotional intelligence and critical thinking in order to attract and retain users. Focused on practical management advice, this is an engaging discussion of how library leaders can grow in their role.

Envisioning Our Preferred Future

Envisioning Our Preferred Future
Author: Bradford Lee Eden
Publsiher: Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Academic librarians
ISBN: 1442266910

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Volume 8 of the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library is focused on new services, directions, job duties and responsibilities for librarians in academic libraries of the 21st century. Topics include research data management services, web services, improving web design for library interfaces, cooperative virtual reference services, directions on research in the 21st-century academic library, innovative uses of physical library spaces, uses of social media for disseminating scholarly research, information architecture and usability studies, the importance of special collections and archival collections, and lessons learned in digitization and digital projects planning and management. Data management services are highlighted in the context of a consortium of smaller liberal arts and regional institutions who share a common institutional repository. Survey research plays a role in a number of chapters. One provides insight into how academic libraries are currently approaching web services, web applications, and library websites. A second survey is used to explore the role of librarians as web designers, and provides detailed information related to job titles, job duties, time percentages related to duties, and other duties outside of web design. Comments of those surveyed are included and make interesting reading and a deeper understanding of this new function in libraries. More generally, is a survey study exploring how librarians feel about the changes that are currently happening within the profession, as well as how these changes have personally affected their job duties and their current job assignments. Case studies are include one that features QuestionPoint in the context of a cooperative virtual reference service; another shows how research and scholarship can be disseminated using social media tools such as blogs, Twitter, ResearchGate and Google Scholar, among others; a other studies explore the importance of user engagement and buy-in before moving forward on digitization; and one shows how information architecture and usability emerge from the redesign of a public library website and whose successful completion involves user surveying, focus groups, peer site reviews, needs analysis, and usability testing. Two chapters deal with the changing legal context: the importance and understanding of copyright and author rights in the 21st-century academic library, and the basics Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). It is hoped that this volume, and the series in general, will be a valuable and exciting addition to the discussions and planning surrounding the future directions, services, and careers in the 21st-century academic library.

A Strong Future for Public Library Use and Employment

A Strong Future for Public Library Use and Employment
Author: José-Marie Griffiths,Donald W. King
Publsiher: ALA Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-05-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838935885

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The latest and most comprehensive assessment of public librarians' education and career paths to date, this important volume reports on a large-scale research project performed by authors Jose-Marie Griffiths and Donald W. King.

Envisioning the Future of Reference

Envisioning the Future of Reference
Author: Diane Zabel,Lauren Reiter
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2020-02-25
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9798216080572

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Offering a broad overview of consequential changes in the landscape of reference services, this guide also provides practical guidance on how to meet the new challenges they present. For the past decade, librarians have been lamenting the demise of reference services. Encouraging recent research shows that reference librarians are actually in more demand than ever; however, nearly everything about reference has changed—from technologies, tools, and techniques to models of service. What are these changes, and how can the profession respond to and prepare for shifting priorities and user needs? In this volume, business librarians Diane Zabel and Lauren Reiter bring together a host of experts to answer these timely questions. Topics range from the education and training of professionals to meeting the needs and wants of employers. Covered are trends in chat reference, research consultations, do-it-yourself reference, tracking trends with user populations, assessment, and data-driven decisions about reference services. Grounded in the principle that, regardless of the evolutions in service, the user remains at the center of reference, this guide offers readers an exciting look at the future of this important public service.