In den nächsten Jahren wird sich in den wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken ein erhöhter Bedarf an Fachpersonal im Bereich der dritten Qualifikationsebene ergeben. Schon heute ist es zunehmend schwierig, ...freie Stellen in dieser Qualifikationsebene zu besetzen. Bibliotheken müssen hier neue Wege gehen und unterschiedliche Zugangsmöglichkeiten schaffen. Am Beispiel der Badischen Landesbibliothek (BLB) und des Landesbibliothekszentrums Rheinland-Pfalz (LBZ) werden verschiedene Modelle der Weiterqualifizierung von Fachangestellten für Medien und Informationsdienste (FaMIs), der Personalgewinnung für Bachelorstudiengänge und interne Trainee-Programme vorgestellt und diskutiert.
Academic libraries are going through what may be the most difficult period in their history. With more and more scholarly content available online and accessible almost anywhere, where does the ...traditional 'brick and mortar' library fit in?In this book, Jeannette Woodward attacks these and other pressing issues facing today's academic librarians. Her trailblazing strategies center on keeping the customer's point of view in focus at all times to help you: integrate technology to meet today's student and faculty needs; revaluate the role and function of library service desks; implement staffing strategies to match customer expectations; and, create new and effective promotional materials. Librarians are now faced with marketing to a generation of students who log on rather than walk in and this cutting edge book supplies the tools needed to keep customers coming through the door.
The cloud can be a powerful tool for conducting and managing research. The Librarian's Guide to Academic Research in the Cloud is a practical guide to using cloud services from a librarian's point of ...view. As well as discussing how to use various cloud-based services, the title considers the various privacy and data portability issues associated with web-based services. This book helps readers make the most of cloud computing, including how to fold mobile devices into the cloud-based research management equation. The book is divided into several chapters, each considering a key aspect of academic research in the cloud, including: defining the cloud; capturing information; capturing and managing scholarly information; storing files; staying organized, communicating; and sharing. The book ends by considering the future of the cloud, examining what readers can expect from cloud services in the next few years, and how research might be changed as a result. * Covers a wide range of services, discussing their strengths and weaknesses and showing readers how to use them more effectively * Offers a research perspective for readers who don't know how to connect cloud services with academic research * Contextualises cloud-based services, explaining not just what they do and how they work, but how they can best be used