Public Speaking Handbook for Librarians and Information Professionals

Sarah R. Statz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

175 Seiten

2003
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-1546-5 (ISBN)

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Now more than ever, librarians need good communication skills. Designed to help information professionals overcome their hesitation, this book offers basic principles for better speech preparation and delivery and discusses specific situations in which librarians have to communicate.

Now more than ever, librarians need good communication skills. They are no longer unseen collectors, classifiers, and cultural guardians. Information professionals are doing more public speaking at conferences, in meetings, classes, book talks and countless other situations, but many of them dislike, even fear, the thought of getting up in front of a group of people and giving a presentation.

Librarians and other information professionals can find in this work help in overcoming their hesitation. Part one offers basic principles for better speech preparation and delivery, discussing such topics as the importance of good listening skills to being a good speaker, doing the necessary research beforehand, applying organizational skills to a presentation, engaging an audience, practicing a presentation before actually giving it, and putting oneself at ease, among others. Part Two discusses the specific situations in which librarians often have to communicate, including interviews, interpersonal communication, library instruction, meetings and presentations to large groups.

Sarah R. Statz is a library assistant for the Madison Public Library system in Madison, Wisconsin, and a freelance indexer.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE: THE SPEAKING PROCESS

1 Lend Me Your Ears

2 Doing the Prep Work

3 Imposing Order (You Know You Want To)

4 The Calm Before the Storm

5 Overture, Curtain, Lights!

6 Discussion and Participation

PART TWO: THE SPEAKING ENVIRONMENT

7 Interviewing

8 Interpersonal Communication

9 Library Instruction

10 Meetings

11 Presentations to Large Groups

Appendix 1: Interviews with Library Professionals

Appendix 2: The Speaker’s Bookshelf

Appendix 3: Presentation Software Tips

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.7.2003
Zusatzinfo	appendices, references, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Briefe / Präsentation / Rhetorik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
ISBN-10	0-7864-1546-0 / 0786415460
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-1546-5 / 9780786415465
Zustand	Neuware