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Title Developing librarian competencies for the digital age / edited by Jeffrey G. Coghill, Roger G. Russell
Published Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 166 pages)
Series Medical Library Association books
Medical Library Association books.
Contents Foundations and history of the profession / Jeffrey G. Coghill and Roger G. Russell -- Information resources and collections / Joseph Thomas and Yunting Fu -- Organization of knowledge and information / Sarah W. Sutton and Mira E. Greene -- Communication skills, marketing, IT skills and teamwork / Carenado Davis, Michael Tucker, Jeffrey G. Coghill and Roger Russell -- Reference and user services / Meghan Hupe, Susan Bridgers and Lisa Blackwell -- Research skills and competencies necessary for librarians in the digital age / Kerry Dhakal, Karen Stanley Grigg, Irene Machowa Lubker and Kristen L. Young -- Current and future trends for supporting online and distance education / Amy Blevins, Katy Kavanagh Webb, Christine Andresen and Megan B. Inman -- Strategic and innovative: health sciences library leadership, management, and administration / Jean Shipman and M.J. Tooey -- Core competencies across the profession / Beverly Murphy and Shannon D. Jones -- The library of the future: patrons' view of the library / Anna Ercoli Schnitzer and 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 15, 2019)
Subject Libraries -- Information technology
Library science -- Forecasting
Core competencies.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- General.
Core competencies
Libraries -- Information technology
Library science -- Forecasting
Form Electronic book
Author Coghill, Jeff, editor.
Russell, Roger G., editor.
LC no. 2017018712
ISBN 9781442264458
1442264454