Toby Pearlstein – författare

Learn why special or corporate libraries must align with their parent organizations in order to survive in these difficult economic times—and how to foster and demonstrate this critical relationship.Special Libraries: A Survival Guide analyzes what has happened—and is still continuing to happen—to corporate libraries in order to identify the strategies that must be taken to protect their staff's survival. Through a careful examination of a series of case studies of corporate library reductions and closures, authors James M. Matarazzo and Toby Pearlstein suggest key strategies, tactics, and survival tools that all types of special library managers can use to minimize their chances of becoming a victim. The book underscores the importance of collecting data as a survival tool. Additionally, it identifies what needs to be taught to students currently enrolled in library and information science (LIS) programs to give them a leg up in careers.This advocacy book is essential reading for staff at special/corporate libraries in the English-speaking world who wish to retain their positions, but it also contains information applicable to today's academic, public, and even school libraries. It is appropriate for students in the field of library and information science, LIS faculty, and corporate executives responsible for the management of the information function.

Learn why special or corporate libraries must align with their parent organizations in order to survive in these difficult economic times—and how to foster and demonstrate this critical relationship.Special Libraries: A Survival Guide analyzes what has happened—and is still continuing to happen—to corporate libraries in order to identify the strategies that must be taken to protect their staff's survival. Through a careful examination of a series of case studies of corporate library reductions and closures, authors James M. Matarazzo and Toby Pearlstein suggest key strategies, tactics, and survival tools that all types of special library managers can use to minimize their chances of becoming a victim. The book underscores the importance of collecting data as a survival tool. Additionally, it identifies what needs to be taught to students currently enrolled in library and information science (LIS) programs to give them a leg up in careers.This advocacy book is essential reading for staff at special/corporate libraries in the English-speaking world who wish to retain their positions, but it also contains information applicable to today's academic, public, and even school libraries. It is appropriate for students in the field of library and information science, LIS faculty, and corporate executives responsible for the management of the information function.

Award-winning information theorists and practitioners Pearlstein andMatarazzo have assembled a group of top international authors with experiencein public, academic, government, and special library settings, includingexperienced independent information professionals, to address the criticalissues facing Information Management (IM) today.

This new handbook provides a context for approaching the world in whichinformation professionals work; a tool, the Balanced Scorecard, to helpdemonstrate contribution and value; and a review of opportunities for new areasof employment and career development, ripe for applying the InformationServices skill set. Through combinations of topical chapters with commonthemes, the professor and student will find a multi-perspective approach to theIM landscape. Used as a ready-reference, the IM practitioner will find boththeoretical and pragmatic approaches to inform their decision making ontraditional as well as new challenges.

For information and IM professionals, librarians, and students, thismust-have handbook provides invaluable insights from the leading names in thefield, enabling you to make the best decision no matter what challenges youface.

Award-winning information theorists and practitioners Pearlstein andMatarazzo have assembled a group of top international authors with experiencein public, academic, government, and special library settings, includingexperienced independent information professionals, to address the criticalissues facing Information Management (IM) today.This new handbook provides a context for approaching the world in whichinformation professionals work; a tool, the Balanced Scorecard, to helpdemonstrate contribution and value; and a review of opportunities for new areasof employment and career development, ripe for applying the InformationServices skill set. Through combinations of topical chapters with commonthemes, the professor and student will find a multi-perspective approach to theIM landscape. Used as a ready-reference, the IM practitioner will find boththeoretical and pragmatic approaches to inform their decision making ontraditional as well as new challenges.For information and IM professionals, librarians, and students, thismust-have handbook provides invaluable insights from the leading names in thefield, enabling you to make the best decision no matter what challenges youface.

Award-winning information theorists and practitioners Pearlstein andMatarazzo have assembled a group of top international authors with experiencein public, academic, government, and special library settings, includingexperienced independent information professionals, to address the criticalissues facing Information Management (IM) today.

This new handbook provides a context for approaching the world in whichinformation professionals work; a tool, the Balanced Scorecard, to helpdemonstrate contribution and value; and a review of opportunities for new areasof employment and career development, ripe for applying the InformationServices skill set. Through combinations of topical chapters with commonthemes, the professor and student will find a multi-perspective approach to theIM landscape. Used as a ready-reference, the IM practitioner will find boththeoretical and pragmatic approaches to inform their decision making ontraditional as well as new challenges.

For information and IM professionals, librarians, and students, thismust-have handbook provides invaluable insights from the leading names in thefield, enabling you to make the best decision no matter what challenges youface.