Career Paths and Career Development of Business Librarians

<p>Contributors provide insights about business librarianship in various types of institutions explore traditional and non-traditional career paths in business librarianship and discuss numerous strategies for professional growth (from earning an MBA degree to working abroad). Among the topics covered are the following: recruitment of business librarians (including recent data on the supply and demand of business librarians); the special concerns of early career and mid-career business librarians; the importance of mentoring; leadership development; and business librarians on the job in academic public and corporate libraries. This book will appeal to a wide audience: practitioners; directors of public academic and special libraries serving the business community; library and information science educators; and those considering business librarianship as a career including students generalist librarians and individuals seeking a career change. </p><p>This book was published as a special issue of the <em>Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship</em>.</p>