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Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Librarian–Scholar in “General Reference Wonderland”: A Concurrent Career Academic Librarian's Journey to Keeping Her Scholarly Identity
Codex: the Journal of the Louisiana Chapter of the ACRL, 2010Co-Authors: Melissa Ursula Dawn GoldsmithAbstract:A reference Librarian in an academic library describes her experiences as a concurrent Career Librarian, as well as a scholar, and the impact that having a concurrent Career and working as a scholar has had on her Career as a Librarian.
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the Librarian scholar in general reference wonderland a concurrent Career academic Librarian s journey to keeping her scholarly identity
Codex: the Journal of the Louisiana Chapter of the ACRL, 2010Co-Authors: Melissa Ursula Dawn GoldsmithAbstract:A reference Librarian in an academic library describes her experiences as a concurrent Career Librarian, as well as a scholar, and the impact that having a concurrent Career and working as a scholar has had on her Career as a Librarian.
Musa A. Bello - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Choosing a Career: Librarian?
Librarian Career Development, 1996Co-Authors: Musa A. BelloAbstract:Presents hypotheses of factors that influence the decision to take up Librarianship. Includes a survey of respondents’ perceptions, general orientation and remarks. Finds that two of the hypotheses were accepted while the third was neither rejected nor accepted.
Ebony Mcdonald - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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An awakening with regional archivists
Journal of New Librarianship, 2019Co-Authors: Ebony McdonaldAbstract:An early Career Librarian of color reflects upon her attendance at a regional conference and how it related to her first rotation as part of a Diversity Residency Program at a large predominately white institution in the Deep South. She examines how the lack of diverse representation within Librarianship has continually contributed to her own crisis of professional identity and how the residency program has influenced managing this crisis.
Autumn Faulkner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Teaching a New Dog Old Tricks: Supervising Veteran Staff as an Early Career Librarian
Library and Leadership Management, 2016Co-Authors: Autumn FaulknerAbstract:In my second year as a new catalog Librarian, my library asked me to assume management of a team of five seasoned copy catalogers, all with decades of experience. Such reporting relationships are increasingly common in libraries. This article discusses challenges and strategies for any early Career professional Librarian supervising veteran support staff, including emotionally intelligent responses to natural awkwardness or resentment, the development of decisiveness while acknowledging gaps in learning and experience, balancing respect for conventions with pursuit of growth, and making incremental shifts in established culture to prepare for evolutions in job roles and responsibilities.
Julia Gross - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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E-mentoring for Career development
Building Your Library Career with Web 2.0, 2012Co-Authors: Julia GrossAbstract:This chapter discusses the role of mentoring in the LIS Career and why mentoring is important. It provides an overview of how mentoring can benefit all Librarians, especially the early-Career Librarian. The chapter discusses the new area of e-mentoring and describes some of the Web 2.0 technologies that can be used to facilitate an e-mentoring relationship. It focuses on informal e-mentoring, how to find a mentor online and strategies for initiating a mentoring relationship. The chapter also describes the characteristics of a successful mentoring relationship and provides some case-study examples of mentoring at work.