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Library Career Management in the Digital Age
A New Tool for Development
- 1st Edition - June 18, 2024
- Author: Katarina Michnik
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 5 2 8 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 5 2 9 - 2
Library Career Management in the Digital Age, A New Tool for Development presents a new model, the Librarian Career Management Tool, that can be used to identify and structure… Read more
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Request a sales quoteLibrary Career Management in the Digital Age, A New Tool for Development presents a new model, the Librarian Career Management Tool, that can be used to identify and structure possible opportunities and challenges to the career development of academic librarians in the digital age. Because of this heterogeneity in the field, there is a need for a theoretical and practical tool that distils variation down to fundamental principles which people can then work with. The tool discussed in the book collates all possible career paths into a taxonomy of influencing factors and natural relationships between these factors for the digital librarian context.
The advantage of modeling these distinct patterns is to enable informed and far-sighted decisions on the motivations for the next steps in an individual’s career. In addition, it enables key trends in digital information management to be better understood.
- Helps academic library managers to identify and structure the opportunities and challenges that their employees face in the digital age
- Helpful for early career academic librarians to identify and structure their motivations and what they want to achieve as librarians
- Ideal for educators in higher education within LIS as a resource for use in teaching about the prerequisites for, and characteristics of, career development of academic librarians
Academic library managers/academic library directors/academic library leaders, Early career academic librarians, Educators in higher education within Library and Information Science/library school faculties, Experienced/senior academic librarians, Students and graduate students in Library and Information Science, This book will be useful as course material for courses in Library and Information Science for both undergraduate and master level as well as for further competence development targeting early career and senior academic librarians.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter one. Introduction
- Abstract
- 1.1 The book’s outline and advice on how to read it
- Chapter two. Functions of academic librarians in a digital age
- Abstract
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Identified functions of academic librarians
- References
- Chapter three. The librarian career management tool
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Traditional, boundaryless, and protean career models
- 3.3 An alternative approach
- 3.4 The structure of the Librarian Career Management Tool
- References
- Chapter four. The voice of the academic librarian’s work
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Career development literature targeting academic librarians
- 4.3 Voices of the academic librarians
- 4.4 Voices on career and professional development
- 4.5 Factors affecting career and professional development
- References
- Chapter five. Career developments for academic librarians in the digital age: opportunities and challenges
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Four personas
- 5.3 Opportunities and challenges
- 5.4 Concluding reflections and questions to discuss
- References
- Index
- No. of pages: 230
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 18, 2024
- Imprint: Chandos Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443215285
- eBook ISBN: 9780443215292
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Katarina Michnik
Since March 2020 the author has been working as an academic librarian at the University of Gothenburg, giving her a practical insight into the academic librarian context. Up-to-date current experience as a library practitioner in addition to my background in teaching and research gives the author the optimal skills and experience to author this book.
Prior to her current post in the University of Gothenburg, the author worked for ten years (2010-2020) as a lecturer and researcher at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science (SSLIS) at the University of Borås. She undertook a PhD in Library and information Science, 2018. During these years she taught future librarians and prepared them for their professional life working in, among other places, academic libraries.
The author has also been involved in several research projects; the largest one was her PhD project which was about the social legitimacy of public libraries. Other projects include a survey study on expectations library managers (including academic library managers) have of newly graduated librarians and an interview study of digital investments that are made in selected public libraries in Sweden.
Affiliations and expertise
Librarian, University of Gothenburg, Olofstorp, SwedenRead Library Career Management in the Digital Age on ScienceDirect