The Invisible Librarian: A Librarian's Guide to Increasing Visibility and Impact

ISBN-13: 9780081001714 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 478 str.

Opis

The Invisible Librarian: A Librarian's Guide to Increasing Visibility and Impact provides insights into what many librarians are feeling, including questions such as "do they feel invisible?" and "How many times have they heard somebody say 'but everything is on the Internet'?" If you are a librarian struggling to find the best strategy for the future of the profession in a rapidly changing information environment, this book is for you. People don't realize that librarians make information available and not just by search engine. This book will make people think differently about librarians, making a case for their value and impact that is compelling, convincing, and credible. Given their versatility and knowledge, now is the time for librarians to become champions of the information age as they improve the visibility and impact of libraries to readers, to stakeholders, and in society. By the end of the book, librarians will have a Visibility Improvement Plan to guarantee future success.

• Provides strategies that librarians can use to raise their visibility
• Presents how successful librarians have made a positive impact
• Covers new techniques that measure current visibility amongst readers and key stakeholders
• Includes key guidance on how to implement a 10-step Visibility Improvement Plan

Recenzje

"...gives plenty of ideas, tips and checklists that can be genuinely useful to librarians who want to measure and improve their visibility, impact and value to readers, to stakeholders, and in society as a whole...aimed to everyone working in this field, as every librarian should find useful resources to be applied in their field of work." --Journal of EAHIL

Spis treści

Introduction

Chapter 1: Step into the librarian's shoes

Chapter 2: Case studies: introduction & visibility of academic librarians & libraries

Chapter 3: Case studies: Visibility of school librarians & school libraries

Chapter 4: Case studies: Visibility of public librarians & public libraries

Chapter 5: Case studies: Visibility of health librarians & health libraries

Chapter 6: Case studies: Visibility of special librarians & special libraries

Chapter 7: State of play

Chapter 8: Visibility improvement plan

Chapter 9: Strategies that work

Chapter 10: Into the future

O autorze

Aoife Lawton works at the Health Service Executive Regional Library & Information Service in Dr. Steevens Hospital, Dublin. She is Systems Librarian and is responsible for the coordination of electronic resources to health service employees throughout the region. She manages the national Irish health repository Lenus which collates research from over 130 health agencies in Ireland.