| Description |
xiii, 166 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
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Medical Library Association books
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Medical Library Association books.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foundations and history of the profession / Jeffrey Coghill & Roger Russell -- Information resources and collections / Joseph Thomas & Yunting Fu -- Organization of knowledge and information / Sarah W. Sutton & Mira E. Greene -- Communication skills, marketing, IT skills and teamwork / Carenado Davis, Michael Tucker, Jeff Coghill & Roger Russell -- Reference and user services / Meghan Hupe, Susan Bridgers & Lisa Blackwell -- Research skills and competencies necessary for librarians in the digital age / Kerry Dhakal, Karen Stanley Grigg, Irene Machowa Lubker & Kristen l. Young -- Current and future trends for supporting online and distance education / Amy Blevins, Katy Kavanagh Webb, Christine Andresen & Megan B. Inman -- Strategic and innovative: health sciences library leadership, management, and administration / Jean Shipman & M.J. Tooey -- Core competencies across the profession / Beverly Murphy & Shannon D. Jones -- Library of the future: patrons' view of the library / Anna Ercoli Schnitzer & Merle Rosenzweig. |
| Summary |
"Developing Librarian Competencies for the Digital Age" identifies specific digital skills needed for success, ways of developing those skills, and ways of assessing them. This book identifies the crux of what it means to a librarian in the 21st century. It is aimed at library professionals at any stage in their career in any library setting to become proactive in coping with the near constant state of change affecting all libraries and all library users in the modern era. |
| Subject |
Libraries -- Effect of technological innovations on.
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Libraries. |
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Libraries -- Information technology.
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Libraries -- Information technology. |
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Medical libraries -- Administration.
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Medical libraries -- Administration. |
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Medical libraries. |
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Library science -- Forecasting.
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Library science -- Forecasting. |
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Library science. |
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Core competencies.
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Core competencies. |
| Added Author |
Coghill, Jeff, editor.
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Russell, Roger G., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Developing librarian competencies for the digital age. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017] 9781442264458 (DLC) 2017018712 (OCoLC)964292715 |
| ISBN |
9781442264434 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1442264438 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781442264441 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1442264446 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781442264458 |
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