The Emerging Information Professional
21st Century Attitudes, Technologies and Practices
(Sprache: Englisch)
The Emerging Information Professional explores trends and demystifies emerging technologies that affect and shape the practice of the Librarian/information professional in the higher education context. The starting point is the evolving attitudes and trends...
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The Emerging Information Professional explores trends and demystifies emerging technologies that affect and shape the practice of the Librarian/information professional in the higher education context. The starting point is the evolving attitudes and trends in the higher education ecosystem and the technologies pertaining to these attitudes. The book is divided into three sections; following the introduction, it explores the turbulent changes in higher education and the identity of the student body, and then provides a detailed background of the origins of and evolution of mobility, personalisation, digital curation, visualisation, openness, emerging issues in global connectedness, an array of good practices when thinking about employing gamification in library settings. The final part considers the new roles of the higher education librarian and it aims to empower the information professionals in embracing our identity, envisioning our future and driving innovation.Fills a gap in the literature pertaining to analysis to the trends in academic libraries in one place
Offers interdisciplinary and inter-domain insights drawing from the corporate environment as well as library and information management, computer sciences, business studies and learning and teaching scholarship
Maps the set of skills, competencies and attributes needed by information professionals and reveals areas for professional development
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Emerging Information Professional “
Part 1: Setting the Scene
Making Sense of the Higher Education Environment; The Students of the Present and the Future
"Packaging or Filtering Information for Students
Key Debates amongst Librarians/Information Professionals about our Future
Key conclusions
Part 2: Attitudes & Technologies
Technologies & Attitudes: Mobility - Live, Learn, Work and Play on the Move
Personalisation - Learning Analytics: What is this about?
Digital Curation
Big Data: From Mobile Digital Breadcrumbs to Big data
Visualisation - An Old Thing in New Terms
Openness - Open Academic Practices, Resources and Massive Courses
Connectedness - Connecting with People, Global Citizenship, Connecting with Machines, Data and People
The Internet of Things
Gamification - Is it all Fun and Games?
Part 3: The 21st Century Information Professional
Our Evolving Identity: Envisioning our Future
Cultivating Communities of Practice and not Communities of Resistance
Cultivating a Culture of Reflection: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats
Conclusions: Driving Innovation not Following Trends
Autoren-Porträt von Eleni Zazani
Eleni Zazani is an Academic Librarian with an evolving role in providing learning support to adult learners within the Birkbeck College Library in London UK. Eleni has been working in the Academic and Research sector for the past 16 years, starting from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, where she was awarded a medal of recognition of service. Eleni's interests fall within the intersections of new and emerging literacies, technologies and research communication. When she is not writing or designing teaching to enable learning, she meets with people with intellectual curiosity.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Eleni Zazani
- 2025, 350 Seiten, Maße: 15,6 x 23,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: CHANDOS
- ISBN-10: 1843347709
- ISBN-13: 9781843347705
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.10.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
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