Description |
xiv, 235 pages |
Series |
The Greenwood library management collection, 0894-2986 |
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Greenwood library management collection. 0894-2986
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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.
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Academic librarians -- Employment -- United States.
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Library science -- Vocational guidance.
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Library science -- Vocational guidance -- United States.
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Librarians -- Employment.
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Librarians -- Employment -- United States.
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Author |
Bridges, Karl, 1964-
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LC no. |
2002028438 |
ISBN |
0313322945 |
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