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Strategies for Regenerating the Library and Information Profession (IFLA Publications): Eighth World Conference on Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Lear: 139
Author(s): Jana Varlejs (Editor), Graham Walton
- Publisher: De Gruyter Saur
- Publication Date: 1 July 2009
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 415 pages
- ISBN-10: 3598220448
- ISBN-13: 9783598220449
Book Description
This volume comprises papers prepared for the 8th World Conference on Continuing Professional Development (Bologna, Italy, 18-20 August 2009). Within the broad theme of creating a positive work environment for a multi-generational workforce in library and information organizations, the conference addresses managing between and across generations, mentoring and coaching, attracting people to the profession and developing a new generation of leaders, re-skilling and transferability of skills, succession planning and passing on knowledge.
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About the Author
Jana Varlejs, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA; Liz Lewis, BBC, London, UK; Graham Walton, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
