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The Image and Role of the Librarian addresses all aspects of professional identity for librarians, including professional roles, cultural images, popular perceptions, and future trends. The book examines historical representations, stereotypes, and popular culture icons and the role each plays in the relationship between librarian and patron. The book also looks at the profound impact the Internet has had on the services librarians provide and how electronic resources have transformed the roles and responsibilities of librarians.
Twentysomething examines the work orientation of today's new work force, offering managers and supervisors in businesses of all sizes and types a practical guide to better understand and manage their young employees.
This volume provides a framework for examining and integrating issues pertaining to organizational leadership and helps prepare the student and professional for leading and participating in these new-era organizations. This volume is divided into eight parts with an overview on leadership and organizational issues for each part.
Peterson's Four-Year Colleges 2012 is the trusted guide of high school guidance counselors, parents, and students. This valuable resource includes information on accredited four-year undergraduate institution in the United States and Canada (and many international schools)-more than 2,500 institutions in all. It also includes detailed two-page descriptions, written by admissions personnel, for more than 400 colleges and universities. Inside you'll find: Detailed profile information including campus setting, enrollment, academic programs, entrance difficulty, expenses, student-faculty ratio, application deadlines, and contact information. The Advice Center provides insider info on specialized college options, such as Honors Programs and Colleges, Online Learning, Women's Colleges, and Public vs. Private institutions. Helful articles offer advice on making a list of your "Top-Ten" colleges, surviving standardized tests, preparing to get into college, paying for college, scholarship guidance and more. Indexes include Majors or Fields of Study, Entrance Difficulty, Cost Ranges, and geographic and alphabetical listings of all schools.
Through her unique perspective the author provides insight into the many different areas of expertise that are required in a good manager. These include how to handle cliques, how to handle the perceived or real excellence of the previous manager, how to handle difficult subordinates, and many others. The aspiring manager, or one recently promoted to management, will benefit from the sage advice offered for these and many other situations that arise from the new responsibilities of being a manager. Consider, for example, the need to establish and maintain good relationships with those above one's position and also those in positions parallel to one's own. Accomplishing this end requires recognizing that the need is there, giving careful thought to how it is to be accomplished, and then monitoring results. This book provides the recognition and the processes for success.
Strengthen your fund raising by re-thinking who your best prospects and donors really are -- persons of affluence, not persons of wealth. Pinpointing Affluence tells you the truth about wealth and philanthropy, and it teaches you how to identify and cultivate the nearly 19 million people capable of giving gifts of $1,000 to $100,000. You'll learn to redesign your development program, steering your focus from donor acquisition toward renewal, upgrading, and planned giving.
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