A presentation for library students covering the areas required to be a successful library professional. Includes areas of focus on the community, library services, management skills, and trends in librarianship.

1. The Library Future, It’s Up to
You
What Tomorrow’s Librarians
Need to Know Today

2. Serve the good of your library
 Desire to meet and serve the library's user
community
 Positive attitude toward library users with
special needs
 Knowledge of a foreign language for
communities with non-native speaking
populations

3. Gaming-Bringing People Together

4. Author Speakers-Bringing Culture to Users

5. Blogs

6. Communicate in Many Ways
 Ability to motivate, establish and maintain effective
working relationships
 Ability to communicate both orally and in writing
 Ability to communicate using technology
 Ability to prepare comprehensive reports and
present ideas clearly and concisely in written and
oral form

7. Office Tasks - Open Office
Documents, Presentations, Spreadsheets

8. Skype Voice Over Internet (VOIP)

9. Chat with Users-Meebo.com

10. Blogger

11. Yahoo Babel Fish-Translation tool

12. Understand the Library
 Knowledge of the philosophy and techniques of
library service
 Possess a knowledge of library services,
materials and resources
 Knowledge of computers, the internet, and
available library software

13. Reference-Knowledge Management

14. Online Catalog-Access Services

15. Cataloging-Bibliographic Records

16. Instruction User - Education

17. Manage Yourself, Others, and Change
 Ability to organize job duties and work
independently
 Ability to exercise initiative and independent
judgment
 Ability to make administrative decisions, interpret
policies, and supervise staff
 Ability to think analytically and to develop new or
revised systems, procedures, and work flow

18. Managing People and Spaces

19. Managing Workload
Library Sessions Taught FY 2008
0
100
200
300
Months
NumberOfSessions
Sessions 19 62 60 10 0 29 34 31 7 252
Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr Total
Records kept in
spreadsheets to plan for
instruction demand.
These are balanced
with available
librarian resources.

20. Information Literacy
Standards & Assessments
Curriculum & Instruction
Professional Development
Learning Environments
Life &
Career
Skills
Learning & Innovation Skills
Core Subjects
& 21C Themes
Information,
Media, &
Technology
Skills

21. Assessment

22. Zotero-Browser Biblographic Management

23. Google Docs

24. Google Sites

25. Podcasting

26. Mobile Services
WorldCat
RefWorks
Google
NCSU Catalog

27. Thank
You!
cs-cordes@wiu.edu