How to Thrive as a Library ProfessionalAchieving Success and SatisfactionBy Susanne Markgren and Linda Miles
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“A book that thoroughly engages the library professional toward reflection, intentionality, and proactivity, leading to greater meaning and potential in their positions. A tour de force of personal and professional development with an ethic of care for librarians contained in one volume!”
This book is a practical and straightforward approach to finessing your practice, with easy-to-implement takeaways. Covering topics that range from determining a career vision and cultivating relationships to using narrative to make connections and employing mindfulness, compassion, and self-forgiveness; this book will help librarians at all stages of their careers to take charge and forge their own way in the vast and shifting landscape of information science.
You will discover new perspectives, gain knowledge, and prepare to take decisive action to further your professional practice. You also will be prompted to consider new ways of thinking about your current practice as well as where you want to go. By developing a deliberative approach to building a practice, you will come away ready for action and with a new perspective—on yourself, your work, your organization, and the community your serve.
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Career Q&AA Librarian’s Real-Life, Practical Guide to Managing a Successful CareerBy Susanne Markgren and Tiffany Eatman Allen
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“From searching for that first library job to getting ready for retirement, Career Q&A addresses the key LIS career issues you’re likely to face, and does so in Markgren and Allen’s signature style: realistic, honest, funny, and smart. I can’t wait to recommend this book to my students.”
—Kim Dority, Rethinking Information Work and LIS Career Sourcebook
Librarianship is an exciting and rewarding career choice that offers variety, diversity, flexibility, and room to grow. In Career Q&A, Susanne Markgren and Tiffany Eatman Allen examine events, transitions, struggles, and advances that encompass and define a librarian’s career, answering a range of important questions library professionals face as they move through the various stages of their working lives.
For more than 10 years, Markgren and Allen have collaborated on the popular advice column “Career Q&A with the Library Career People.” Here, blending their own best advice with tips and ideas from a number of their savvy peers, they guide current and aspiring information professionals in their pursuit of satisfying careers.
September 2013 | 240 pp softbound | ISBN 978-1-57387-479-3
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