The invisible librarian : a librarian's guide to increasing visibility and impact / Aoife Lawton.
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...
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Chandos Publishing, an imprint of Elsevier,
[2016]
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| Series: | Chandos information professional series.
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Table of Contents:
- Step into the shoes of a librarian
- Case studies : visibility of academic librarians and academic libraries
- Case studies : visibility of school librarians and school libraries
- Case studies : visibility of Public librarians and public libraries
- Case studies : visibility of health science librarians and libraries
- Case studies : visibility of special librarians and special libraries
- State of play : measuring the current visibility of the librarian and library
- Visibility improvement plan (VIP)
- Strategies that work to improve the visibility, value and impact of the librarian and library
- Into the future : the future is now.
- Step into the shoes of a librarian; Background; School; Medical; Academic; Public; Special; Special librarian; You decide to continue on with your business case; You decide to ask Bob for feedback.
- Special librarian (option 2 from start)Special librarian; Public librarian (option 1 from start); Public librarian; Public librarian (option 2 from start); Public librarian (option 3 from start); Academic librarian (option 2 from start); Academic librarian (option 1 from start); Academic librarian (option 3 from start); Medical librarian (option 1 from start); Medical librarian (option 2 from start); Medical librarian (option 3 from start); School librarian (option 1 from start); School librarian (continued from above); School librarian.
- School librarian (if you've decided to continue doing research from earlier)School librarian (option 2 from start); School librarian (option 3 from start); Notes; 2
- Case studies: visibility of academic librarians and academic libraries; Case study 1: subject librarian in engineering, mathematics, business, social science and philosophy working in reader services; Mission of the organisation; Mission of the library; Online visibility of the library and subject librarian; Background and current role; Most successful way of increasing visibility?
- Value that the librarian brings to the organisationDo you use any formal method of measuring and/or reporting your impact?; Challenging scenarios; Top tips for academic librarians to increase visibility; What do you think of the 'embedded librarian' model, in which the librarian is part of a multidisciplinary team, doing all of th...; How important is it to be visible to users in an online environment?; Advice to new people into the profession of librarianship?; Where do you see the subject librarian in 5years?; What is your favourite thing about being a librarian?
- Case study 2: emerging technologies librarian working in an academic medical libraryMission of the organisation; Mission of the library; Online visibility of library and librarian; Role in the organisation; Visibility at time of appointment; Visibility today; What has been your most successful method of increasing your visibility over the past 5years?; What value have you brought to the organisation?; Does the library have any formal way of measuring and reporting impact?