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ISBN-10 :  0081001714 

ISBN-13 : 9780081001714

Author:  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’?”

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.

 

The invisible librarian a librarian s guide to increasing visibility and impact 1st Table of contents:

1. Step into the shoes of a librarian
Background
Special librarian
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
Case study 2: emerging technologies librarian working in an academic medical library
Case study 3: liaison librarian working in an academic library
Case study 4: systems librarian working in an academic library
Case study 5: head of services at University of Eastern Finland Library/Kuopio University Hospital Medical Library
Summary
Notes
3. Case studies: Visibility of school librarians and school libraries
Case study 6: school librarian in secondary (second-level) school for boys
Case study 7: librarian working in a secondary school for boys and girls
Case study 8: school librarian in secondary (second-level) school for girls
Summary
Notes
4. Case studies: Visibility of public libraries and public librarians
Case study 9: county librarian at Wexford county council public libraries, Ireland, and a former president of the Library Association of Ireland (2011–2013)
Case study 10: principal librarian information, advice and digital services and overall manager for Northamptonshire central library, United Kingdom
Case study 11: librarian working at Dublin city public libraries, Ireland
Case study 12: librarian working at Dublin city public libraries, Ireland
Case study 13: information management and Kew librarian at Boroondara, Victoria, Australia
Summary
Notes
5. Case studies: Visibility of health science librarians and libraries
Case study 14: librarian working in a palliative care setting
Case study 15: clinical librarian working in UHL
Case study 16: reference librarian working in a biomedical library that is part of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Case study 17: librarian working in a specialist health library
Case study 18: e-resources librarian working at Exeter Health Library, which is the NHS library for the Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust Hospitals
Summary
Note
6. Case studies: Visibility of special librarians and special libraries
Case study 19: librarian working independently as a knowledge management consultant and an information technology librarian at the State of Alaska Court Law Library
Case study 20: librarian working as an information scientist in the Child and Family Agency
Case study 21: Research officer working as an embedded librarian at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Case study 22: corporate librarian working in a corporate setting
Case study 23: librarian employed as a legal information manager
Summary
Note
7. State of play – measuring the current visibility of the librarian and library
Introduction
What is visibility?
Stakeholder analysis
Determining value
School librarian – example of readers/users of school library service
Hospital librarian – example of readers/users of hospital library service
Public librarian – example of readers/users of public library service
Academic librarian – example of readers/users of academic library service
What the librarian does
Prioritisation exercise: activities
Visibility of the librarian
Measuring your visibility according to your stakeholders
How did you score?
Root cause analysis
Visibility of the library
Library visibility to readers according to readers
How did the library score?
Management techniques for determining visibility – how are you going to get more visible?
Positioning
Information audit and skills audit
Information audit
Skills audit
SWOT and PESTLE
Measuring visibility, impact and value
Measuring impact and value in academic libraries
Measuring impact and value in public libraries
Measuring impact and value in health science libraries
Measuring impact and value in special libraries
Measuring online visibility
Branding
Checklist for online access points where library brand/logo should be visible
Checklist for online access points where the librarian should be visible
Summary
Notes
8. Visibility improvement plan (VIP)
Introduction
Let’s get visible! v-i-s-i-b-i-l-i-t-y
Reader charter
Visibility checklist
Notes
9. Strategies that work to improve the visibility, value and impact of the librarian and library
Leadership and advocacy
Librarians as leaders
Examples from academic librarianship of increasing visibility, value and impact
Examples from health librarianship of increasing visibility, value and impact
Critical success factors for increasing visibility
Online visibility – strategies that work
Examples from school librarianship of increasing visibility, value and impact
Examples from special librarianship of increasing visibility, value and impact
Examples from public librarianship of increasing visibility, value and impact
Visibility emergency kit
Notes
10. Into the future: The future is now
Libraries
Neutral generalists
Democracy
A societal good
Openness
Change
Trends
The world is online
Collective intelligence and collaboration
Professional reputation
Rise of smarts
Evidence-based librarianship
Fishing
Power through collaboration
Synthetic biology
Space
Recognition
Robots
Consumer choice
The future
Planning for the future
Universal access to knowledge
Values stay the same
Notes

 

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