Ptolomey Taking Charge of Your Career

A Guide for Library and Information Professionals
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-78063-010-6
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Chandos Information Professional Series

This book is about rethinking your career in a refreshing and systematic way to take into account your professional and personal goals. The book provides students and information and library professionals (at all levels) with tools and practical steps to making changes in their career. At the heart of the book is a methodology called 'personal strategic planning', which allows the reader to work out a baseline for what is important to them in a career and provide techniques and tools for moving forwards. - Written in accessible style from an experienced practitioner's point of view - Draws on the author's experience of moving between different LIS sectors having worked in the private and public sector - Draws on the author's experience of successfully moving and adapting skills from a career in another industry sector

Joanna Ptolomey is a qualified librarian based in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She has held positions as a librarian in the National Health Service and as a research analyst for a global private sector consultancy. She works as a freelance information professional providing bespoke information and research services, training and consultancy for clients. She also writes regularly and speaks on a variety of library and information topics specifically on continuing professional development issues. She is a board member of the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC), the independent advisory body to the Scottish Government and Scottish Ministers on library and Information matters. She is also the Chair of the Scottish Health Information Network (SHINe).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ptolomey, Joanna