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In a rapidly changing environment where increasingly the boundaries are blurring between librarians' roles and those of learning technologists, information technologists, educational developers, skill support specialists and, indeed, academic staff, the academic librarian needs not only to embrace new opportunities but also to influence proactively the development of learning environments. This essential book captures and critically discusses the librarian's changing learning support role in an educational context, providing guidance and practical support. Written by acknowledged experts across a broad range of roles in the new academic environment, it challenges thinking in this area as well as offering practice-based advice. This book is essential reading for practitioners at every level within the higher education and further education sectors, including information specialists, learning support professionals, academic liaison co-ordinators and subject specialists, academic service managers, and heads of library and information services. It will also be a valuable resource for all other professionals involved in the delivery of learning support, and for students of LIS and of education.

Computer assisted instruction --- Library automation --- Academic libraries --- Academic librarians --- Bibliothèques universitaires --- Bibliothécaires d'université --- Aims and objectives --- Job descriptions --- Finalités --- Descriptions d'emploi --- Academic libraries. --- Academic librarians. --- Libraries. --- Aims and objectives. --- 028.7 --- Information literacy --- 028.7 Information literacy --- Bibliothèques universitaires --- Bibliothécaires d'université --- Finalités --- College librarians --- University librarians --- Librarians --- Academic libraries - Aims and objectives.

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Effective leadership is key to the future of information services and professional practice, and demands on leaders within the sector are greater than ever before. Leadership skills are required at all levels of the profession, from the top, through to professional staff called upon to lead a team or to take a supervisory role. To meet these challenges, individuals must develop their leadership capacity. This book invites information professionals across the sector and at different stages in their career to reflect on and engage with the development of their leadership role and contribution. Using theoretical concepts and models, coupled with practical tools, this book encourages readers to think about their own leadership and the leadership provided by others around them as the basis for continuing improvement in management and professional practice. No other book offers such a comprehensive and topical perspective on leadership in the context of the information services and the wider information industry. Contents include: challenges in leadership; knowing yourself as a leader; leadership in context; promoting change, innovation and creativity; leading people; setting direction and strategy; leadership development; and influencing others. It has a range of features, including learning objectives, chapter summaries, reflection points, review questions, case cameos and recommendations for further reading, encourages and facilitates engagement and reflection. This book is a must have for information professionals and aspiring leaders seeking to understand leadership and to develop their own leadership practice, as well as the leadership potential in others. It is also a valuable professional education text.

Leadership. --- Library administration. --- Information services --- Data collection services --- Information brokers --- Information centers --- Information science service organizations --- Information service providers --- Providers of information services --- Information retrieval --- Information science --- Documentation --- Research --- Libraries --- Library management --- Management --- Ability --- Command of troops --- Followership --- Administration. --- Administration --- Organization

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Cross Infection --- Cross Infection --- Infection Control. --- Cross infection --- Infections nosocomiales --- nursing. --- prevention & control. --- Prevention. --- Prévention

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