Who's louder than a librarian from New York? | Jane Burns
Channel: AcademicSpecial Libraries
Date: 2016-03-03

This case study will highlight the skills and perspectives that Jane learned primarily from working in nontraditional roles such as taxation, digital media, teaching and research, and will explore ways to harness methodologies, approaches and perspectives from these non-traditional environments to library and information settings. Central to this case study is the approach of not only learning new things, but also the essential requirement to share them with others in a variety of settings, from work place settings, to presentations, to
publications and teaching environments. Helping others to identify required, and then transferable skills, is key to keeping our own skills up to date. Skills from non-traditional environments, such as commercial focus to your outputs, helps to add value to the work librarians do in non-commercial settings and to evaluate on a constant basis the purpose and functionality of work and supporting activities. Having experience in these environments and remaining involved to some degree helps to develop a business case focus to work and to identify information jobs for the future. The case study will emphasize and demonstrate the importance of advocacy and marketing of our own skill sets and that of the wider library and information community. #asl2016