Rethinking Information Work

Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Second Edition
1-Rethinking Information Work
Change Happens
Lifetime Employment vs. Lifetime Employability
Career Competencies
Designing Your Career
Beginning Your Career Journal
Starting Your Exploration
Your Value Statement
Resources
2-Self-Knowledge: Your Career Starting Point
Who Are You?
Finding Out about You
Information Aptitudes
Preference Filters: How Will You Work?
Job-Specific Considerations
Exploring Your Career Preferences
How Preferences Shape Career Paths
Resources
3-Traditional LIS Career Paths
Public Libraries
Exploring Public Library Careers
Why You Might Love Being a Public Librarian
School Library Media Centers
Exploring School Library Media Specialist Careers
Why You Might Love Being a School Librarian
Academic Libraries
Exploring Academic Library Careers
Why You Might Love Being an Academic Librarian
Types of Jobs within Traditional Libraries
Is a Traditional LIS Career Path for You?
Resources
4-Nontraditional LIS Career Paths
Building a Nontraditional Path
Workplace Environment
Types of Work
Salary and Education
Exploring Nontraditional LIS Careers
Why You Might Love a Nontraditional Career Path
Resources
5-Independent LIS Career Paths
What Work Would You Do?
How Would You Work?
What Market Would You Target?
What Would You Charge?
How Would You Get Clients?
How Would You Create and Maintain Your Support Community?
And Don't Forget to Think About
Portable LIS Careers
So You Want to Start a Research Business
Income and Education
Exploring Independent Career Paths
Getting Started as an Independent
Why You Might Love Being an Independent
Resources
6-Understanding, Describing, and Documenting Your Value
Understanding Your Skills
Describing Your Skills
Repurposing Your Skills
Transferable vs. Translatable Skills
An Initial Process for Mapping Transferable Skills
Creating Your Portfolio Career-and Career Portfolio
Reviewing Your History
Designing Your Portfolio
Growing Your Portfolio
Benefits of a Portfolio Approach
The Art and Science of Landing the Job
Resources
7-Thriving on Change
Positioning for Opportunity
Thinking about Change
Creating Your Change Strategies
The Learning Edge
Your Education Map
Resources
8-Building Professional Equity
Building Your Network-Your Community of Colleagues
Nurture Your Professional Ties
Maintaining Your Professional Network
Micro-Networking: Making Small Talk
Establishing Your Professional Reputation
Branding for Beginners: What Assets Are You Taking Public?
Building Professional Equity through Associations
LinkedIn, Networking, Branding, and Your Career
Professional Equity Equals Opportunity
Resources
9-Getting from Here to There
Career Map Components
Assembling Your Career Map
Sample Career Maps
Setting Agendas
Putting Your Career Map in Play
Using Your Career Map to Achieve Your Goals
Asking the Critical Question
Resources
10-Improvising Your Resilient Career
What Does a Resilient Career Look Like?
Actions for a Resilient Career
Attitudes for a Resilient Career
Self-Leadership
Getting Unstuck
Taking Charge When You're a Student
The Fine Art of Career Improv
Freedom to Choose
Resources
Appendix A-Special Interest Groups
Appendix B-Career and Employment Resources
Appendix C-LIS Blogs and Social Media
Index