The Invisible Librarian : A Librarian's Guide to Increasing Visibility and Impact.

Front Cover -- Series Page -- The Invisible Librarian: A Librarian's Guide to Increasing Visibility and Impact -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Biography -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction -- What do we do now? -- Books are for use -- Every reader his book -- Every book its reader -- Save the time of the reader -- Library is a growing organism -- Note -- 1 - Step into the shoes of a librarian -- Background -- School -- Medical -- Academic -- Public -- Special -- Special librarian -- You decide to continue on with your business case -- You decide to ask Bob for feedback -- Special librarian (option 2 from start) -- Special librarian -- Public librarian (option 1 from start) -- Public librarian -- Public librarian (option 2 from start) -- Public librarian (option 3 from start) -- Academic librarian (option 2 from start) -- Academic librarian (option 1 from start) -- Academic librarian (option 3 from start) -- Medical librarian (option 1 from start) -- Medical librarian (option 2 from start) -- Medical librarian (option 3 from start) -- School librarian (option 1 from start) -- School librarian (continued from above) -- School librarian -- School librarian (if you've decided to continue doing research from earlier) -- School librarian (option 2 from start) -- School librarian (option 3 from start) -- Notes -- 2 - Case studies: visibility of academic librarians and academic libraries -- Case study 1: subject librarian in engineering, mathematics, business, social science and philosophy working in reader services -- Mission of the organisation -- Mission of the library -- Online visibility of the library and subject librarian -- Background and current role -- Most successful way of increasing visibility? -- Value that the librarian brings to the organisation.

Do you use any formal method of measuring and/or reporting your impact? -- Challenging scenarios -- Top tips for academic librarians to increase visibility -- What do you think of the 'embedded librarian' model, in which the librarian is part of a multidisciplinary team, doing all of th... -- How important is it to be visible to users in an online environment? -- Advice to new people into the profession of librarianship? -- Where do you see the subject librarian in 5years? -- What is your favourite thing about being a librarian? -- Case study 2: emerging technologies librarian working in an academic medical library -- Mission of the organisation -- Mission of the library -- Online visibility of library and librarian -- Role in the organisation -- Visibility at time of appointment -- Visibility today -- What has been your most successful method of increasing your visibility over the past 5years? -- What value have you brought to the organisation? -- Does the library have any formal way of measuring and reporting impact? -- Have you ever had a challenging scenario where you had to prove your value or worth to the organisation and how did you respond?... -- Top tips for academic librarians to improve impact and visibility? -- Do you think the embedded librarian/liaison librarian/librarian in context is the future for academic librarians? -- How important is it for the librarian to be visible to users in an online environment? -- What has been the most successful method of increasing visibility in an online environment? -- Where do you see the emerging technologies librarian in 5years? -- What is your favourite thing about being a librarian? -- Case study 3: liaison librarian working in an academic library -- How to increase visibility? -- What has been your most successful method of increasing your visibility?.

Value the librarian brings to the organisation -- The value and impact of the library service to the organisation -- Does the librarian use any formal method of evaluation for reporting her impact? -- Challenging scenario -- Top tips for academic librarians to increase their visibility and impact? -- Do you think the embedded librarian or liaison librarian is the future for academic librarians? -- How important is it for the librarian to be visible to users in an online environment? -- Where do you see the academic librarian in 5years? -- What is your favourite thing about being a librarian? -- Case study 4: systems librarian working in an academic library -- Mission of the organisation -- Mission of the library -- Online visibility of library and librarian -- What value have you brought to the organisation? -- What impact has the library service had on the organisation? -- Does the library have any formal way of measuring and reporting impact? -- Have you ever had a challenging scenario? -- Top tips for systems librarians in an academic setting to improve impact and visibility? -- Do you think the embedded librarian is the future for academic librarians? ('embedded' meaning outside of the library, with no n... -- How important is it for the librarian to be visible to users in an online environment? -- What is the most successful method of increasing visibility in an online environment? -- What advice would you give to new entrants to the profession? -- Where do you see the systems librarian in 5years? -- What is your favourite thing about being a librarian? -- Case study 5: head of services at University of Eastern Finland Library/Kuopio University Hospital Medical Library -- Mission of the organisation: (University of Finland, 2014) -- Mission of the library -- Online visibility -- Value that the librarian brings to the organisation.

Impact that the library brings to the organisation -- Is there a formal method of measuring and/or reporting library and librarian impact? -- Challenging scenario -- Top tips for academic or health science librarians to increase visibility -- How important is it for the librarian to be visible to users in an online environment? -- Most successful method of increasing online visibility? -- Do you think the embedded librarian/librarian in context is the future for health librarians? [Note: Embedded librarian refers t... -- What is your favourite thing about being a librarian? -- Summary -- Notes -- 3 - Case studies: visibility of school librarians and school libraries -- Case study 6: school librarian in secondary (second-level) school for boys -- Visibility -- On a scale of 0-10, how visible do you feel in your organisation to your users (i.e. teachers/students)? -- How do you think you can bring those scores up to a 10? -- When you first started the job 6years ago, what would your visibility score have been with key stakeholders? -- How did you make the library work? How did you improve your visibility score and what were the most successful strategies? -- What value do you think you as a librarian have brought to the school? -- What impact has the school library as a service had on the organisation? -- Formal assessment -- Can you think of any challenging scenarios as a school librarian and what strategies worked or did not work? -- What are your top tips for school librarians to increase their visibility and impact? -- What tips would you give new entrants to the school librarian profession? -- What is the most read book in the library? -- What is your favourite thing about being a school librarian? -- Case study 7: librarian working in a secondary school for boys and girls -- Mission statement -- The role of the librarian in this school.

Visibility to key stakeholders -- On a scale of 0-10, how visible do you feel in your organisation to your users (i.e. teachers/students)? -- Challenging the traditional image of the stereotypical librarian -- When you first started the job 8years ago, what would your score have been with key stakeholders? -- How did you make the library work? How did you improve your visibility score, and what were the most successful strategies? -- What value do you think you as a librarian have brought to the school? -- What impact has the school library as a service had on the organisation? -- Formal assessment -- Can you think of a challenging scenario as a school librarian and what strategies worked or did not work? -- What are your top tips for school librarians to increase their visibility and impact? -- What tips would you give new entrants into the librarian profession? -- How important is online visibility for the school librarian? -- What is the most read book in the library? -- About school librarianship -- What's your favourite thing about being a librarian? -- Taking credit -- Threats to the profession -- Case study 8: school librarian in secondary (second-level) school for girls -- Mission statement -- Library aims -- Visibility score -- Activities to increase visibility of the librarian and library -- Tips for increasing visibility -- Value of librarian to the school -- What impact does the school library have on the school? -- Methods of reporting impact -- Challenging scenario -- What are your top tips for school librarians to increase their visibility? -- What advice would you give to new entrants to school librarianship? -- What is the most read book in the library? -- What is your favourite thing about being a school librarian? -- Summary -- Notes -- 4 - Case studies: visibility of public libraries and public librarians.

Case study 9: county librarian at Wexford county council public libraries, Ireland, and a former president of the Library Associ.

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