Librarianship Beyond the Textbook: A Practical Guide for Real-World Challenges

Some situations cannot be taught in library school.With a DEI focus, this book helps library leaders, both formal and informal, with those unexpected challenges. Library and Information Undergraduate and Graduate Programs do an incredible job examining important methodology of librarianship today.However, any library school graduate will at multiple points in their career declare, “Well they didn’t teach me this in library school!” Whether it was taught or not, libraries are a multifaceted, constantly changing landscape.Public, academic, school, and special libraries of all sizes each have their own unique needs, but there are certain skills, techniques, and mindsets that benefit all library staff. Librarianship Beyond the Textbook is different from others on the market in that it addresses topics that aren’t automatically or often associated with librarianship - topics that are otherwise overlooked, but are nonetheless inevitable, capturing those “Finally, some help with this!” moment