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Business Librarianship and Entrepreneurship Outreach

Author: Karen MacDonald

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-03-05

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 1317995228

The changing landscape of business information has created opportunities for business librarians to move beyond being reactive to business information needs to become proactive participants in business development and entrepreneurship instruction. Libraries are no longer only repositories of books but information –rich sources of business and economic data. The case studies presented within this book highlight a variety of examples on entrepreneurship education and local economic development. The examples presented serve as a catalyst for further entrepreneurial endeavours and highlight the growing need for effective value-added support in finding business information. Business librarians play a critical role in promoting the effective use of business information and in providing significant value-added services within university and community settings. This book was published as a special double issue of the Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship.

Supporting Local Businesses and Entrepreneurs in the Digital Age

Author: Salvatore DiVincenzo

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2017-09-07

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13:

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A timely reference for all public librarians who serve the business community in libraries, regardless of size or location—from small rural outposts to bustling big-city branches. Serving communities today entails serving businesses—in particular, local businesses, entrepreneurs, and those looking to become entrepreneurs. Understandably, many librarians are not prepared for this role, and as a result feel uncomfortable in it. Supporting Local Businesses and Entrepreneurs in the Digital Age: The Public Librarian's Toolkit explains how librarians and libraries can better serve the business community, offering specific guidance on everything from information resources—including books, databases, and free online sites—to programming, special events, marketing, and outreach. Readers will gain insight into key topics ranging from embedded business librarianship, virtual business librarianship, and government documents to seminars, one-on-one appointments, and trade shows. Providing invaluable guidance based on the authors' real-world experience and research as well as interviews with librarians in all sizes of libraries around the country, this book offers practical, actionable advice and proven best practices for serving local business owners and entrepreneurs.

Embedded Business Librarianship for the Public Librarian

Author: Barbara A. Alvarez

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2016-07-28

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 0838914810

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Loaded with recommended practices for increasing engagement and developing courses and programs for business owners, professionals, and job seekers in the community, this book points the way towards making the library an integral part of the business community in ways that are realistic and sustainable.

Embedded Business Librarianship for the Public Librarian

Author: Barbara A. Alvarez

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2016-07-28

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 0838914829

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Supporting Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Author: Janet Crum

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2019-04-29

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1789732077

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Libraries have recently begun doing more to support entrepreneurship and innovation within their communities. This volume explores how this has come about, looking at libraries from across North America, Europe and Africa, and helps position readers to better understand what is happening, and how this can be brought to further institutions.

The Entrepreneurial Librarian

Author: Mary Krautter

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0786490128

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The old image of an entrepreneur as a scrappy, independent risk-taker has been replaced by the reality of individuals incorporating innovative ideas in more traditional settings. This collection of essays illustrates how librarians are infusing entrepreneurial principles in a variety of arenas, including public, private, academic, and special libraries. It chronicles how entrepreneurial librarians are flourishing in the digital age, advocating social change, responding to patron demands, designing new services, and developing exciting fundraising programs. Applying new business models to traditional services, they eagerly embrace entrepreneurship in response to patrons' demands, funding declines, changing resource formats, and other challenges. By documenting the current state of entrepreneurship in libraries, this volume upends the public image of librarians as ill-suited to risky or creative ventures and places them instead on the cutting edge of innovations in the field.

Entrepreneurial Librarianship

Author: Guy St. Clair

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-05-07

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 3110956772

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Although libraries are not businesses, library management must be driven by the same characteristics that make a business successful -- responsibility, performance, and control. Entrepreneurial Librarianship offers specific techniques for creating an entrepreneurial environment in a library or information services organization -- or initiating such techniques where a less-successful operation is already in place.

Making Sense of Business Reference

Author: Celia Ross

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2020-07-15

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0838919421

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This is the guide to keep at your side when serving business students, job-seekers, investors, or entrepreneurs in your library.

Risk and Entrepreneurship in Libraries

Author: Pamela Bluh

Publisher: Assoc for Libr Collections & Tech Svc

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13:

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Leveraging Library Resources in a World of Fiscal Restraint and Institutional Change

Author: Kevin B. Gunn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1135716080

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Given the continuing cataclysmic shift in the economic landscape in the last few years, librarians have been forced to reevaluate not only the traditional services that they offer but also their continued existence and relevance to their academic institutions. Given the ‘new normal’ of tighter constraint on personnel and materials budgets, librarians now are compelled to find new ways of offering services and forging new relationships with departments and programs outside the traditional library setting. This volume highlights a number of projects being implemented in academic libraries including: rethinking the entire concept of a library, redefining physical space for new collaborative uses, adapting entrepreneurial techniques to acquire funding, creating new research tools and improving services, forging new consortial partnerships, allying more closely the mission of the library with that of the institution, and adapting public library programs to academic libraries. By re-examining the purpose of an academic library under continuing financial duress, librarians can ensure that their libraries will continue to have relevance to higher education. This book was published as a special issue of College & Undergraduate Libraries.