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Library instruction is like acting: There's a live audience, in
person or online; you may be doing a one-shot, limited engagement,
or play to the same crowd repeatedly over the course of a term; and
you usually expect reviews. Most important, instruction is like
acting in that you're playing a role, and it's crucial to prepare
your performance before you go on in order to shine and connect
authentically with students. Your Craft as a Teaching Librarian:
Using Acting Skills to Create a Dynamic Presence -a revised and
expanded edition of The Craft of Librarian Instruction-captures how
acting techniques can sharpen your instructional skills and
establish your teaching identity, enliven your performance, and
create an invigorating learning experience for your students. It's
divided into three entertaining sections: Prepare and Rehearse:
Centering yourself, physical and vocal preparation, mindfulness,
and avoiding stage fright Perform and Connect: Role playing,
identity, action/reaction, and information literacy Reflect and
Sharpen: Assessment and adaptation Chapters feature exercises to
explore on your own or with a colleague, question and answer
sections to help you identify potential challenges and solutions,
and tips on deepening your teaching skills. A glossary of acting
terms and a "learn more about it" bibliography provide additional
context for the methods and techniques presented. Your Craft as a
Teaching Librarian can help you personalize and characterize your
teaching presence and help those with little to no teaching
experience, instructors dealing with shyness or stage fright, and
more experienced librarians in need of a refreshed perspective,
adding an undeniable star quality to your instructional
performance.
Libraries have a distinctive role to play in the small business
ecosystem and can effectively partner to complement existing
business services in the community. A nationwide initiative that
launched in 2020, Libraries Build Business (LBB) aims to build
capacity in libraries offering programming or services to local
entrepreneurs and the small business community, prioritizing
low-income and underrepresented entrepreneurs. And libraries have
already begun to transform communities, with programs ranging from
one-on-one business consultations, classes, and workshops to
networking and equipment lending, as the many initiatives
spotlighted in this book demonstrate. Serving as powerful models of
how libraries and their staff can advance innovation and economic
growth on any budget and scale, these examples will inspire you to
plug into your own community while guiding you through the
nuts-and-bolts of making it happen. You'll learn the value to
libraries of getting involved in entrepreneurship development; how
libraries are integrating equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI)
into their efforts, working to create more inclusive business
communities and, in turn, cultivate a vision for justice in
communities across the country; vivid case studies of more than two
dozen programs representing a cross-section of urban, suburban, and
rural libraries, such as Entrepreneurship Academy, a training
program; a 6-month business incubator targeting the formerly
incarcerated; empowering street vendors, a consulting service with
local business experts; and a makerspace for business; best
practices related to budgeting, partnerships, staff, outreach,
evaluation, sustainability, and other core components; and
information about additional resources to support your work.
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