Building Entrepreneurial Competencies in Library Staff: Getting Started
09 Feb 2018-Vol. 82, Iss: 1
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the challenges faced by public and academic libraries to build library staff competencies to serve a growing population of entrepreneurs in order to support their own businesses.
Abstract: Library staff in public and academic libraries face challenges to build library staff competencies to serve a growing population of entrepreneurs Most public libraries provide workforce development assistance, and of those, 48% provide entrepreneurial services to these communities (American Library Association, nd) What can we learn from those libraries in order to build our capacity to grow entrepreneurs? When library staff teach individuals about new technologies in our makerspaces, these community members invent new tools, or objects How do we extend their expertise? Library staff can create pipelines to fabrication re-sources, patent centers, and small business resources in order to assist our communities to grow and start their own businesses Meeting these growing needs, finding and providing information services in this vein is a part of the traditional library model How can libraries best serve entrepreneurial-minded individ-uals? How can libraries boost their capacity to meet this need? What kinds of training do we need to ad-dress this issue?
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01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the self-employed sector has shown a degree of resilience during the recent economic crisis, as the relative decline in self-employment has been more moderate in comparison with salaried employment.
Abstract: Entrepreneurship plays an important role in creating jobs, innovation and growth. Fostering entrepreneurship is a key policy goal for governments who expect that high rates of entrepreneurial activity will create sustainable jobs. Self-employment, also contributes to job creation in Europe, as 30% of the self-employed have employees of their own. European-level data indicate that the selfemployment sector has shown a degree of resilience during the recent economic crisis, as the relative decline in self-employment has been more moderate in comparison with salaried employment.
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12 Mar 2020
TL;DR: The Think-Pair-Sharing (PPSh) game as discussed by the authors is an example of a game that can help students and faculty to create knowledge, and how information as a product is modeled, remodeled and reinterpreted for pedagogically creative teaching and learning.
Abstract: Two recent technology-driven tendencies in library-faculty collaboration – (1) embedding librarians in the online components of courses, and (2) repurposing certain library spaces to become makerspaces – often embrace the learning strategy of focusing on students as creators. Booth Library at Eastern Illinois University, in collaboration with a faculty-led Faculty Development office and a Humanities Center, has advanced both the leveraging of technology in learning and the creation of a library makerspace, and added a third component, (3) placing an active learning classroom (ALC) connected to a design lab as the first stage of a Center for Student Innovation (CSI). This process, grounded in research on learning spaces and universal design, had led us to ask: what space best encourages creativity in the learning process?
We propose to showcase a “think-pair-share” card game to demonstrate how we are re-centering the library as a center for knowledge creation, and a space for promoting discovery, in a format that invites Creating Knowledge participants to fine-tune our model or advance alternatives. That is, the library is building collaborations for re-thinking space, and re-positioning the library as central to teaching and learning, to foster 21st century skills around information, communication, and ethical/social impact. The card game will demonstrate ways to help students and faculty to create knowledge, and how information as a product is modeled, remodeled and reinterpreted for pedagogically creative teaching and learning. The implementation of the CSI has stimulated larger discussions in the library and across campus about the role of a “future-present” library. How can faculty and students embrace discovery as a means rather than an end? What role does the library play in facilitating teaching and learning? What does the future library look like? The presentation and card game will answer these questions through audience feedback and participation.
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01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the self-employed sector has shown a degree of resilience during the recent economic crisis, as the relative decline in self-employment has been more moderate in comparison with salaried employment.
Abstract: Entrepreneurship plays an important role in creating jobs, innovation and growth. Fostering entrepreneurship is a key policy goal for governments who expect that high rates of entrepreneurial activity will create sustainable jobs. Self-employment, also contributes to job creation in Europe, as 30% of the self-employed have employees of their own. European-level data indicate that the selfemployment sector has shown a degree of resilience during the recent economic crisis, as the relative decline in self-employment has been more moderate in comparison with salaried employment.
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"Building Entrepreneurial Competenci..." refers background in this paper
...The American Library Association’s Libraries Transform campaign also highlights entrepreneurship as a key element of libraries....
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...The American Library Association’s Libraries Transform campaign also highlights entrepreneurship as a key element of libraries. Library staff help connect entrepreneurs to tools to make their new products and prototypes. Libraries Transform (2017) reports that “business owners and employees use resources at public libraries to support their small businesses 2....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the evolution and role of makerspaces in academic libraries, with a particular focus on how libraries are using innovation spaces in support of entrepreneurship and digital humanities on campus.
Abstract: This article explores the evolution and role of makerspaces in academic libraries, with a particular focus on how libraries are using innovation spaces in support of entrepreneurship and digital humanities on campus. At the University of Arizona Libraries in Tucson, a unique new coworking and makerspace called the iSpace has developed. While many libraries have long supported digital humanities and digital scholarship, the emergence of makerspaces has led to new approaches to learning and knowledge creation within the library and campus ecosystem. Cross-disciplinary collaborations and the cultivation of a community of learners are two among many benefits to this approach and service. As academic libraries aim to meet multiple demands on space, budgets, and changing learning environments, many of them will consider establishing their own makerspaces. Looking at makerspaces through this lens of wide support for both entrepreneurs and digital scholars will provide unique perspectives for wider conversations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how academic and public libraries support entrepreneurial researchers and, in doing so, demonstrate impact and share best practices by revealing the main services they provide to this unique user group and presenting examples from their own institutions.
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how academic and public libraries support entrepreneurial researchers and, in doing so, demonstrate impact and share best practices. Design/methodology/approach – The authors discuss their own experiences as academic and public business librarians who support entrepreneurs. They do so by revealing the main services they provide to this unique user group and presenting examples from their own institutions. They also present what is done at other libraries by way of a literature review and an informal survey. Findings – After navigating the landscape of business librarian support of entrepreneurs, many commonalities were found among the types of support offered. Most libraries in this study collaborate with a business incubator, center for entrepreneurship, office of economic development or small business development center in some fashion. Numerous outreach and networking efforts were found that had positive effects on the local and national economies. Alth...
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"Building Entrepreneurial Competenci..." refers background in this paper
...Librarians Hoppenfeld and Malafi (2015) note that the creation of new businesses “should have a positive effect on the economy.”...
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