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Author: G. Edward Evans
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 2018-01-16
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0838916686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis updated edition enables readers to understand how academic libraries deliver information, offer services, and provide learning spaces in new ways to better meet the needs of today's students, faculty, and other communities of academic library users.
Author: Michael Perini
Publisher: Chandos Publishing
Published: 2016-04-06
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 008101015X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Academic Librarian as Blended Professional employs a model that allows for individual and managerial reconceptualization of the librarian's role, also helping to mitigate obstacles to professional development both internal and external to the library. Using traditional and personal narrative, the book extends Whitchurch's blended professional model, designed to consider the merging of academicians' roles across several spheres of professional and academic influence in a higher education setting, to academic librarians. The book is significant due to its use of higher education theory to examine the professional identity of academic librarians and the issues impacting librarian professional development. The work offers a constructive, replicable research design appropriate for the analysis of librarians in other academic settings, providing additional insights into how these professionals might perceive their roles within the larger context of a higher education environment. Following the application of the blended professional model, this book contends that academic librarians have similar roles concerning research, instruction, and service when compared to an institution's tenure-track faculty. The scope of professional productivity and the expectation of the librarians, though, are much less regimented. Consequently, the academic librarians find themselves in a tenuous working space where their blended role is inhibited by real and perceived barriers. - Uses a model from the discipline of higher education in order to better conceptualize and understand the academic librarian's role in the institution - Allows for the analysis and understanding of the librarian's identity and role in a context familiar to those outside of the academic library system - Provides a unique understanding of both the library system and its librarians, explaining the nuances of the greater higher education collective
Author: Megan Hodge
Publisher: Assoc of College & Research Libraries
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780838989579
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudents are emerging scholars whose work should be recognized and shared in conversation with work done by established scholars. Broken into four sections--Library as Laboratory, Library as Forum, Library as Archive, and Articulating the Value of Student Work-Scholarship in the Sandbox contains case studies and discussions from diverse perspectives including students, classroom professors, academic staff, and librarians from across North America--back cover.
Author: Anne Langley
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2003-10-31
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1780630603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book covers the practical side of being an academic librarian – a role that has undergone a large degree of change in recent years. It outlines and describes the skills necessary to succeed in these large, and often complex, organisations. The book includes tools and techniques for an academic librarian for managing time, meetings, projects, publishing and research, communications (paper and electronic), the basics of supervision, and how to work in a large organisation. The impact of the growth of electronic formats on the role of the academic librarian are discussed in detail. - Explains how, in practical terms, to stay organised, communicate successfully, network and navigate through an often politicised environment - Applies business practices to the field of librarianship - Shows how to use organisational behaviour techniques to manage yourself and your work
Author: Josh Seeland
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 3031657314
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Linda S Katz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-06-27
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1136752366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGet a unique insight into the image problems librarians face! The Image and Role of the Librarian addresses all aspects of professional identity for librarians, including professional roles, cultural images, popular perceptions, and future trends. The book examines historical representations, stereotypes, and popular culture icons and the r
Author: Melissa N. Mallon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2017-10-27
Total Pages: 123
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe budget-constrained, rapidly evolving climate of higher education and academic libraries makes it a necessity for academic librarians and administrators to communicate the value of their library to the university. This book explains how to execute this critical task. Authored by a library director and director of library liason and instructional services who formerly served as a faculty member, a librarian, and a professional development instructor, The Pivotal Role of Academic Librarians in Digital Learning establishes the library's role in supporting student learning in an increasingly digital environment by exploring theoretical foundations and sharing concrete examples. The chapters focus on strategies and methods for demonstrating the academic library's value through strategic campus partnerships, creation of learning objects such as video tutorials, research instruction designed to facilitate student collaboration, and participation in assessment of learning on campus. All of the topics addressed within a broad range of subject matter fall within the scope of learning in the "digital age," with particular emphasis on utilizing online learning environments—including social media—to teach students critical thinking and research skills as well as to position the academic library as an integral part of the modern learning environment. This book is a must-read for academic librarians in instructional roles, teaching faculty, academic library administrators and managers who need to communicate the value of the library in relation to student learning, and academic administrators who are obligated to demonstrate the important role of libraries in academic excellence.
Author: Delmus E. Williams
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2009-11-02
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 1849505799
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDealing with the subject of organizational theory and library administration, this title covers topics such as: managing change in research libraries; the agility of library consortia and its member libraries; the evaluation of reference services; and, developing a recruitment strategy for a diverse workforce. It is suitable for library students.
Author: Stephen E. Atkins
Publisher: UW-Madison Libraries Parallel Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781893311381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rebeca Peacock
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-01-23
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1476613257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe new essays on today's academic librarians examine above all their functions and responsibilities--since these have greatly changed just in recent years, especially in matters of technology. These librarians/essayists step away from yesterday's stereotypes and explain at length their new roles. From digital resources and special collections, to web development and new outreach initiatives, the topics covered by the essays in this book will reassure new librarians and stimulate prospective librarians as they realize the enhanced and varied positions that are available in the 21st century academic library.
