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The Generation X Librarian Essays on Leadership, Technology, Pop Culture, Social Responsibility and Professional Identity

Wallace, Martin K.; Tolley-Stokes, Rebecca; Estep, Erik Sean
ISBN-10: 0786463090
ISBN-13: 9780786463091

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Generation X includes those individuals born roughly between the years 1961 and 1981. This generation has faced unique advances in technology, environmental degradation, and widening economic injustice, all of which affect libraries and librarians. This collection of critical essays showcases the unique qualities and challenges that face Generation X librarians.
Topics covered include management and leadership, rapidly changing technology, social attitudes and stereotypes within popular culture, and how Generation X librarians have responded to or developed upon those themes. This book fills many of the gaps present in the professional literature on librarianship and our younger generations.
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Getting to Know Us
From Paper to Pixels: Generation X as Digital Librarian
Understanding Gen X at Work: Securing the Library's Future
Generation X Librarians, Faculty and the Rise of Information Literacy
X Marks the Spot
Stuck in the Middle with You: Generation X Librarians
Leadership
Managing Millennials: Advantages of Generation X Librarian Approaches
Generation X Mentoring Millennials
Gen X Takes Over: Managing the Mix from the Middle
Leading the Way into the Future of Libraries
A Finger in the Pie: A Look at How Multiple Careers Benefit the Library Professional
Technology
Twitter My Glitter: A Dialogue on the Technological Expectations of Library Users
The Transitioning Library Collection: Is the Gen X Librarian the Right Librarian at the Right Time?
Hackers vs. Librarians: Some Thoughts on the Privilege of 2.0 Thinking
Pop Culture
Watchers, Punks and Dashing Heroes: Representations of Male Librarians in Generation X Mass Culture
Pinko vs. Punk: A Generational Comparison of Alternative Press Publications and Zines
Social Responsibility
Remaining Responsible, Remaining Relevant: Gen X Librarians and Social Responsibility
Skeptic/Activist: Gen Xers in Radical Reference
The Thin Red Line: How Gen X Librarians Make It Thicker (Views from Bosnia and Herzegovina)
About the Contributors
Index




List price: $55.00
Edition: 2011
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Binding: Trade Paper
Pages: 224
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.88 lbs.
Language: English

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