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Title Expectations of librarians in the 21st century / edited by Karl Bridges ; foreword by Leigh Estabrook
Published Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003

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Description xiv, 235 pages
Series The Greenwood library management collection, 0894-2986
Greenwood library management collection. 0894-2986
Contents The land grant university reference librarian of the 21st centure: exciting opportunities and unprecedented challenges / Mary Anne Hansen -- John Henry's dilemma / Philip Swan -- Out of the box / Marie Jones -- The curious librarian / Kenneth A. Smith -- Of babies and bathwater--hiring library staff for the 21st century / Danelle Hall -- Going to town: interviewing in the large urban public library / Alison Hopkins -- "Stand back," said the elephant, "I'm going to sneeze!" / Janice Krueger -- The cooperative librarian / Jennifer Inglis -- Mere mortals need not apply / Jane Birks and Liz Oesleby -- We're looking for a few good catalogers / Bridgette Scott -- Hiring academic reference librarians for the 21st century / Mary M. Nofsinger -- Librarians in the 21st century / Barbara Lovato-Gassman -- Needed: energetic librarian willing to work in challenging arena! / Jetta Carol Culpepper -- Wanted--new creations: dinosaurs need not apply / Anne A. Salter -- Librarians: what supervisors are seeking / Kathleen Fleming -- Librarians and human interaction / Ronda Glikin -- A business plan model of employment for librarians / Angela K. Horne -- Hot links are hot hires / Virginia E. Young -- Technology skills in libraries of the 21st century / Sheila Kasperek -- A word to future academic librarians / Vickie Kline -- Preferred qualification: ability to think conceptually / Melinda Dermody -- Voices from the 21st century: librarians at the University of Arizona library / Carla J. Stoffle, Patricia Morris, and Ninfa Trejo -- Being a deep generalist / Leslie M. Haas -- Academic reference librarians for the 21st century / Colleen boff and Carol Singer -- "The more things change": what is a librarian today?/ Cynthia Akers -- Reference staff of the digital beyond / Beth Avery -- It takes a cyber librarian / Janet Foster -- The academic library--not a lair for fiery dragons / Barbara Burd -- The academic librarian of the future: the view from California Lutheran University / Susan Herzog -- The FAKTs of life: being a small-college librarian / Molly Flaspohler -- Why a good "sh-h-h" doesn't cut it anymore: personality characteristics of the 21st-century librarians / Maria C. Bagshaw -- The future of librarianship / Felix T. Chu -- Arrogance: for obvious reasons / Shelley Ross -- Developing business and management skills for the 21st-century academic librarian / John Riddle -- The 21st-century librarian / David H. Stanley -- Academic reference as a second career / Cheryl Gunselman -- Academic librarians as caring knowledge managers: are we there yet? / Wendy Tan -- Electronic resources librarians in the 21st century / Eleanor L. Lomax -- Competition in the library / David M. Bynog -- Qualities of a 21st-century librarian / Necia Parker-Gibson -- The more things change in academe, the more they need to stay the same / Karen Fischer -- The joys of special librarianship / Ronald N. Bukoff -- New librarians in the 21st century: the normalization of change / Lorena O'English -- Electric luddites: special collections librarians make the great leap / Roger C. Adams -- Selling instruction: communicating the value of the library in the age of the internet / Michael J. Rose -- Militant segregationists, control freaks, and techno-believers / Craighton Hippenhammer -- Metaphor matters: imagining the future of librarianship and the library / Nancy Kuhl -- Seeking: enthusiastic artists / Randall M. MacDonald and Andrew L. Pearson -- Before we look to the future ... / Liz Kocevar-Weidinger -- Teaching excellence and the academic librarian: paralleling the teaching faculty's track / Martha Henn McCormick -- The library at the University of Vermont in 1900 / Karl Bridges -- The most important thing they don't tell you in library school / Janet T. O'Keefe -- Technical services librarians for the 21st century: what are we looking for? / Gwen M. Gregory
Summary A collection of 53 essays that provide personal insights into the personal and educational qualities professional librarians hope to find in the newest entrants to the field
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Academic librarians -- Employment.
Academic librarians -- Employment -- United States.
Library science -- Vocational guidance.
Library science -- Vocational guidance -- United States.
Librarians -- Employment.
Librarians -- Employment -- United States.
Author Bridges, Karl, 1964-
LC no. 2002028438
ISBN 0313322945