Creativity for library career advancement: perspective, techniques and eureka moments /

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Imprint:Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2019.
Description:vii, 256 pages : illustratitons ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11915345
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Other authors / contributors:Gubnitskaia, Vera, 1960- editor.
Smallwood, Carol, 1939- editor.
Tenbusch, Deb Biggs, author of foreword.
ISBN:9781476674018
1476674019
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:In today's diverse, ever-changing job market, creativity is more necessary than ever. In a profession offering a broad range of job opportunities, librarians are surrounded by myriad connections to be made. They are trained to recognize them. This collection of new essays covers a wide spectrum of methods for cultivating creativity. Topics include learning through role-playing games, libraries as publishers, setting up and using makerspaces, developing in-home support for early-career staff, creating travelling exhibits, creative problem solving, and organizing no-cost conferences.

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505 0 0 |t The power of incubation: slowing down to speed up creativity /  |r Jim Jipson and Kellie Sparks --  |t Two worlds, one outlet: zine making and critical reflection for professional and personal development /  |r Silvia Vong --  |t It's in the cards: using tarot reading to access professional creativity /  |r Laura Wimberley --  |t What is your quest? Learning through role-playing games /  |r Michael P. Buono --  |t Growth lessons learned from a one-year fellowship in a nontraditional library environment /  |r Dana E. Thimons --  |t Applying improvisation in libraries and librarianship /  |r Anthony Stamatoplos --  |t Let your voice be heard: libraries as publishers /  |r Kathleen Christy --  |t The art of pseudo-archives and its role in advocacy /  |r Anastasia S. Varnalis-Weigle --  |t Reinvention through necessity: one librarian's evolution from one-shots to for-credit teaching /  |r Mary Tood Chesnut --  |t The library as laboratory: using makerspaces to cultivate organizational and personal creativity /  |r Courtney McAllister and Christine R. Elliott --  |t Firing up personal growth with the spark of creativity: how to start a creativity group for library staff /  |r Leslie A. Wagner --  |t Following in the footprints of the master (detective) /  |r Robert Perret --  |t Poets and scholars: foregrounding librarians' creative writing in and out of the university classroom /  |r Rochelle Smith --  |t The tenure-track librarian as a scholarly researcher /  |r Rachel K. Fischer --  |t The writerly librarian: creativity and writing /  |r Addison Lucchi --  |t The process of research and publication as a tool for personal and professional growth /  |r Astrid Oliver --  |t Small steps, big impact: professional and personal growth and development /  |r Robin R. Breault, Brooke McDonald Shelton and James Ritter --  |t Transparency and subterfuge: encouraging creativity in academic libraries /  |r Jack Maness, Erin Elzi and Shannon Tharp --  |t Creative accommodations: finding the best solution for library employees with invisible disabilities /  |r Joy M. Perrin and Carrye Kay Syma --  |t Contagious creativity: leveraging staff talents and interest to find career satisfaction /  |r Shelia Gaines and Casey Parkman --  |t Developing in-house support for early career staff /  |r Paula Archey, Maggie Nunley and Erin E. Pappas --  |t Music to my ears: using amateur music-making as a means of vocational specialty /  |r Bruce R. Schueneman --  |t A shutterbug in a world of bookworms: photography as a creative outlet in academic librarianship /  |r Michelle P. McKinney --  |t Artful information: lessons for librarians from visual artists /  |r Tim Gorichanaz --  |t Arts enrichment for a working artist librarian /  |r Yolanda Poston --  |t Finding your librarian voice: creative ways to get involved and share ideas /  |r Holly Mills and Sharon Holderman --  |t Collective creativity /  |r Amy Gay and Kelsey George --  |t Around the state in postcards: creating traveling exhibits /  |r Ruth Elder and Jana Slay --  |t Creative problem solving in libraries: budgets, staff and the lack thereof /  |r Nora Franco and Maria Lobley --  |t Beyond the boot camp: no-cost conferences /  |r Heather C. Seminelli. 
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