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Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: The Basics--Getting Off to a Good Start Chapter 1: Start at the Beginning--Your Job Responsibilities and How to Accomplish Them Rebecca Miller with Nancy Sosna Bohm Working with Others--You're Not Alone Managing Your Job Duties--A Time for Everything Fulfilling Your Job Role--Serving Up Information You Do Make a Difference Chapter 2: Building Strong Collaborative Relationships with Disciplinary Faculty Elizabeth O. Hutchins Cross-Cultural Understandings ... and Misunderstandings We Too Have Disciplinary Expertise! Strategic Opportunities and Challenges Conclusion Chapter 3: Building the Profession--Research, Creative Activities, and Publication by Academic Librarians Joan Beam and Cathy Cranston Publication Getting Started Writing a Book Librarians' Experiences Chapter 4: Time Served Is Time Well Spent--Making the Most of Your Service Commitments Michelle Mach Why Do Service? Types of Service Activities Campus Service Professional Service Community Service Decisions, Decisions Getting Started Evaluation of Service Activities Conclusion Chapter 5: Faculty Status, Promotion, and Tenure--What Are You Getting Into? Gwen Gregory and Mary Beth Chambers Benefits Drawbacks The Future of Faculty Status The Best Status for You Part 2: Things to Think About--Getting and Keeping a Great Job Chapter 6: "Come on Down! You're the Next Contestant"--One Librian's View of the Interview Process Karl Bridges The Vita: Organization, Organization, Organization References When Things Are Bad: If You Were Fired or Turned Down for Tenure Interviewing with Special Circumstances The On-Campus Interview When Good Interviews Go Bad After the Interview Handling Rejection: It's Not You. Really. "Come on Down," Or, You Got the Job Chapter 7: Mentors--How To Find Them, How To Use Them Verla Peterson Why Have a Mentor? Getting Your Mentor Developing a Relationship with Your Mentor Chapter 8: Continuing Education--Planning Your Future Kris Swank You Will Need Continuing Education Make a Plan Find Opportunities Make It Happen Carpe Diem Chapter 9: Unions in Academic Libraries Tina Maragou Hovekamp [Au: Hovenkamp or Hovekamp? It appears both ways throughout the book.] Development of Faculty and Academic Library Unions Reasons to Unionize Union Structure and the Bargaining Process The "Collective" Outcomes of Unionization Conclusion Chapter 10: What Have You Been Up To--Documenting Your Career McKinley Sielaff Preliminary Questions and the Timeframe Teaching Scholarship Service Other Professional Activity Getting It Together Previews and Run-Throughs Conclusion Chapter 11: Up North--Comparison and Contrast of U.S. and Canadian Academic Libraries Don Taylor The Canadian University System The Canadian University Library Becoming a Librarian in Canada The Job Market for Academic Librarians in Canada Canadian Copyright Collection Development and Collection Management Issues Professional Organizations Part 3: Tales from the Trenches--Academic Librarians Share Their Stories Chapter 12: Notes From a Cataloger--Success in Technical Services Wendy Baia Defining Success in Academic Librarianship Challenges of Communication in a Hierarchical Institution Cooperation to Save the Time of the User Supervision Library Leadership and Change Stress and the Library Conclusion Chapter 13: Witches Brew or Gourmet Gumbo--Tenure in the Library Molly Molloy Prologue It Should Always Taste Good, Even Though It Might Not Look Like the Picture in the Magazine Priorities Are Made to be Straight, Not Crooked Who Let Those Creatures Out of the Box? Or, How Did Those Ideas Get Into My Head? Enforced Mediocrity It's Not What You Say But ... A "Strange Little Town" Gourmet Recipes or Not, You Gotta Eat Chapter 14: Moving to the Academy in Mid-Career--A Field Guide for the Experienced Librarian Anna Gold [Au: Should this be Anna Keller Gold as in the Contributor list?] Mutual Attraction "... and Members of the Academy"--What You (Don't) Know about Academic Culture "The Center of the University"--The Academic Library as Cathedral What to Expect They're Expecting: Interviewing for the Mid-Career Move The Heart of the Academy: Learning Chapter 15: A View From the Top--What the Director or Dean Is Looking For Benjamin Wakashige and Emily Asch Personal Characteristics Professional Qualities Service, Research, and Teaching Afterword Annotated Bibliography About the Contributors About the Editor Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Academic librarians -- United States.
Academic librarians -- Vocational guidance.
Academic librarians -- Employment.