Sep 01 2000
September 1, 2000 - vol. 1, no. 1 - ISSN 1532-0839
Welcome to the all-new Info Career Trends, the only publication focusing on career development issues for librarians/information professionals. This inaugural issue focuses on the changing library environment and how it affects us as professionals. Plenty of lip service has been paid to [...]
Sep 01 2000
by Pat Wagner Every workplace is changing. Whether you are looking for your first job, or counting the weeks until retirement, change is the constant in libraries of all sizes and types. And yet, there are still many professionals who think that “things will settle down some day,” thus setting themselves up for frustration and [...]
Sep 01 2000
by Marisa Urgo
Librarians place a high value on professional training and development, but that value is redefined with every new generation. Right now, there are competing perspectives: many managers see professional development as an unnecessary expense, while their employees, especially their Generation X employees, see it as an essential part of their career development. [...]
Sep 01 2000
by Sarah Nesbeitt
I’m one of those librarians you hear about but rarely see, particularly when it comes to someone with my job title: I originally became attracted to the profession because I enjoyed reading books. The attraction of doing research, and the library atmosphere in general, were other factors in my decision. Eight years [...]
Sep 01 2000
“Technostress and the Reference Librarian,” by John Kupersmith Originally published in 1992, this article contains classic advice for librarians struggling to cope with constantly changing technology and workloads. For more on technostress in libraries, see Richard A. Hudiburg’s talk on “Assessing and Managing Technostress.”
“Who Do We Think We Are?” by Mary-Ellen Mort How practicing librarians [...]
Sep 01 2000
Johnson, Spencer. Who Moved My Cheese? An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1998. ISBN 0399144463. $19.95.
(Visit his site at http://www.whomovedmycheese.com/)
If you’ve been living in a box for the past year, you may have missed the uproar surrounding this brief yet best-selling [...]
Sep 01 2000
Stover, Mark. Leading the Wired Organization: The Information Professional’s Guide to Managing Technological Change. New York: Neal- Schuman Publishers, Inc., 1999. ISBN 1555703577. $49.95.
Stover’s work makes a welcome change from the usual focus on how libraries must retool themselves to remain relevant in a digital age. Parts of the book do address libraries’ needs, [...]