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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