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Creativity for Library Career Advancement Vera Gubnitskaia

Creativity for Library Career Advancement By Vera Gubnitskaia

Creativity for Library Career Advancement by Vera Gubnitskaia


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This insightful collection of essays covers a wide spectrum of methods for cultivating creativity as a skill for career fulfillment and success. Topics include learning through role-playing games, setting up and using makerspaces, developing in-house support for early-career staff, creative problem solving, and organizing no-cost conferences.

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Creativity for Library Career Advancement: Perspectives, Techniques and Eureka Moments by Vera Gubnitskaia

Creativity is just connecting things, observed Steve Jobs. In today's diverse, ever-changing job market, creativity is more necessary than ever. In a profession offering a broad range of job opportunities, librarians are surrounded by myriad connections to be made. They are trained to recognize them. This insightful collection of new essays covers a wide spectrum of methods for cultivating creativity as a skill for career fulfillment and success. Topics include learning through role-playing games, libraries as publishers, setting up and using makerspaces, developing in-house support for early-career staff, creating travelling exhibits, creative problem solving, and organizing no-cost conferences.

Creativity for Library Career Advancement Reviews

A fun, engaging, and resourceful manual with innovative ideas to spark any librarian's imagination. - Andrew Hart, reference librarian, Ohio BWC Library, Columbus, Ohio

Want to know how to succeed in the library world, and enjoy it, read this anthology filled with ideas on incorporating creativity, with excellence in the profession. - Nancy Richey, associate professor, Western Kentucky University

A guidebook for new and growing librarians towards a spectacular profession in a madly diversified world. - Hong Cheng, librarian, UCLA, and president of the Society for Chinese Studies Librarians

Contains a great deal of advice for those who wish to step up and out in the profession, by utilizing their innate skills and interests! - Larry Naukam, retired director of historical services, Rochester New York Public Library

Provides wonderful examples of how finding creative outlets and solutions not only make us interesting people, but also great librarians. - Corey Seeman, director, Kresge Library Services, University of Michigan

Timely information for librarians during this era of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) and Makerspace movements. - Linda Garrison, librarian, Canterbury School of Florida, Saint Petersburg, Florida

Both practical and inspiring, the collection so is wide-ranging that every librarian can find something to spark new approaches to work. - Kathrine C. Aydelott, MLIS, PhD, head of Research & Learning Services, University of New Hampshire.

About Vera Gubnitskaia

Vera Gubnitskaia has worked as a library manager, consultant, and reference librarian in public and academic libraries in Russia and the United States. During her career as a writer and editor, she contributed chapters to several professional publications, edited multiple anthologies, and published book reviews. She is currently an art fellow at Crealde School in Winter Park, Florida.

Carol Smallwood, a recipient of the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award and multiple Pushcart nominations, is the author of journal articles as well as editor of numerous books including one in Poets & Writers Magazine List of Best Books for Writers. A Michigan resident, her experience includes school, public and special libraries.

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CIN1476674019VG
9781476674018
1476674019
Creativity for Library Career Advancement: Perspectives, Techniques and Eureka Moments by Vera Gubnitskaia
Used - Very Good
Paperback
McFarland & Co Inc
2019-06-04
230
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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