The Invisible Librarian: A Librarians Guide to Increasing Visibility and Impact

The Invisible Librarian: A Librarian's Guide to Increasing Visibility and Impact provides insights into what many librarians are feeling, including questions such as do they feel invisible? and How many times have they heard somebody say 'but everything is on the Internet'? If you are a librarian struggling to find the best strategy for the future of the profession in a rapidly changing information environment, this book is for you. People don't realize that librarians make information available and not just by search engine. This book will make people think differently about librarians, making a case for their value and impact that is compelling, convincing, and credible. Given their versatility and knowledge, now is the time for librarians to become champions of the information age as they improve the visibility and impact of libraries to readers, to stakeholders, and in society. By the end of the book, librarians will have a Visibility Improvement Plan to guarantee future success. Provides strategies that librarians can use to raise their visibilityPresents how successful librarians have made a positive impactCovers new techniques that measure current visibility amongst readers and key stakeholdersIncludes key guidance on how to implement a 10-step Visibility Improvement Plan INDICE: Introduction Chapter 1: Step into the librarian's shoes Chapter 2: Case studies: introduction & visibility of academic librarians & libraries Chapter 3: Case studies: Visibility of school librarians & school libraries Chapter 4: Case studies: Visibility of public librarians & public libraries Chapter 5: Case studies: Visibility of health librarians & health libraries Chapter 6: Case studies: Visibility of special librarians & special libraries Chapter 7: State of play Chapter 8: Visibility improvement plan Chapter 9: Strategies that work Chapter 10: Into the future

• ISBN: 978-0-08-100171-4
• Editorial: Chandos Publishing
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 478
• Fecha Publicación: 18/11/2015
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés