Taking Charge of Your Career: A Guide for Library and Information Professionals

This book is about rethinking your career in a refreshing and systematic way to take into account your professional and personal goals. The book provides students and information and library professionals (at all levels) with tools and practical steps to making changes in their career. At the heart of the book is a methodology called ‘personal strategic planning’, which allows the reader to work out a baseline for what is important to them in a career and provide techniques and tools for moving forwards.

Written in accessible style from an experienced practitioner’s point of viewDraws on the author’s experience of moving between different LIS sectors having worked in the private and public sectorDraws on the author’s experience of successfully moving and adapting skills from a career in another industry sector