Trend Spotting
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When you look at library job advertisements you often come across the boilerplate requirement: " awareness of latest trends in academic librarianship. " We want to hire knowledgeable librarians who are up-to-date on issues, best practices, and the major challenges of our field. In the course of an interview, candidates will likely display their currency about academic librarian-ship by answering job-related questions and discussing their skills and experience, and that may be enough. But what if we, the hiring agents, decide to be more direct and ask candidates to list and describe trends, and what if we had our own list to check candidates' answers against? What would these lists look like? Trend Spotting I have been in the candi-date's seat as well as the hiring agent's seat many times. On my list of major trends, I would include managing during times of economic constraint, offering digital repositories and preservation services, designing new kinds of library facilities and print storage, reforming scholarly publishing, progressing from collection to knowledge management , developing library leaders, and rethinking information literacy education. (By the way, information literacy is the most popular topic in our field judging from the number of manuscripts C&RL receives.) This list, of course, reflects my own experience and professional preoc
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- C&RL
دوره 72 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011