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  • Embedded Librarianship

    What Every Academic Librarian Should Know

    In the ongoing evolution of the academic library, embedded librarianship has become an important topic of debate across levels and departments. This book delves into the concept, examining everything from theory to best practices.Is the embedded librarian an equal partner in the course, or is the librarian perceived as a "value-added" extra? What is the place of technology in this effort? Is there ... Read more

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  • Project Management in the Library Workplace

    Series Book 38 - Advances in Library Administration and Organization
    An important component of library administration and organization in the modern age is managing projects. Once the realm of technology and business gurus, formal project management tools, techniques and schemas have become more commonplace in libraries. Using formal project management components can help libraries achieve their desired outcomes with less stress for employees. However, there can be ... Read more

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    Series series Routledge Studies in Library and Information Science
    The Challenges to Library Learning: Solutions for Librarians is an insightful volume that offers a practical philosophy of engagement that can be used to meet the growing challenges facing librarians, including staffing shortages, depleted or eliminated training budgets, longer hours, greater workloads, and rapidly-changing technology, hindering the ability—and willingness—of employees to continue ... Read more

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  • Integrating Total Quality Management in a Library Setting

    Improve the delivery of library services by implementing total quality management (TQM), a system of continuous improvement employing participative management and centered on the needs of customers. Although TQM was originally designed for and successfully applied in business and manufacturing settings, this groundbreaking volume introduces strategies for translating TQM principles from the profit ... Read more

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  • Repositioning Reference

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    To compete today, librarians need to not only provide old services in new ways but also to provide new services. Repositioning Reference: New Methods and New Services for a New Age re-imagines reference services in libraries and information organizations and the role of reference librarians, taking into account rapid developments in technology and information-specific services in non-library ... Read more

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  • Business Architecture Made Easy

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    Whether you are about to embark on a major business transformation or you simply want to be better prepared for the next challenging period in your business organization, this book is designed to help you. The author makes no apology for keeping this book easy to understand, targeting the book at everyone from the CEO to front line operatives and taking each of them on a journey from complexity to ... Read more

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  • The NextGen Librarian's Survival Guide

    Here is a unique resource for next generation librarians, addressing the specific needs of GenXers and Millennials as they work to define themselves as information professionals. The book focuses on how NextGens can move their careers forward and positively impact the profession. Library career guru Rachel Singer Gordonherself a NextGen librarianprovides timely advice along with tips and insights ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Media Analytics: Effective Tools for Building, Interpreting, and Using Metrics

    Align Strategy With Metrics Using Social Monitoring Best Practices“Two or three years from now, every public relations firm that wants to be taken seriously in the C-suite and/or a lead marketing role will have someone like Marshall in its senior leadership ranks, a chief analytics officer responsible for ensuring that account leaders think more deeply about analytics and that thfirm works with ... Read more

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  • The Embedded Librarian

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    Here is the first comprehensive survey of the growing practice of "embedded librarianship"—a strategic model for placing information professionals into partnerships with the individuals and working groups that depend upon their knowledge and expertise. David Shumaker looks at implementations in all types of organizations, identifies the characteristics of successful embedded librarians, and ... Read more

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  • User Experience Management

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  • Excellence in People Analytics

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    Effectively and ethically leveraging people data to deliver real business value is what sets the best HR leaders and teams apart. Excellence in People Analytics provides business and human resources leaders with everything they need to know about creating value from people analytics.Written by two leading experts in the field, this practical guide outlines how to create sustainable business value ... Read more

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  • Teaching Online

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    Series series Tech.edu: A Hopkins Series on Education and Technology
    Demystifies online teaching for both enthusiastic and wary educators and helps faculty who teach online do their best work as digital instructors.It is difficult to imagine a college class today that does not include some online component—whether a simple posting of a syllabus to course management software, the use of social media for communication, or a full-blown course offering through a MOOC ... Read more

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