Required skills, desired traits... Openness as the key attitude. From researching soft skills to examining activities taken by the staff of MUG's Main Library when faced with changes, challenges and novel situations
Openness in librarianship is, obviously, not limited to expanding access to scholarly materials and supporting the advancement of science by promoting the Open Access movement. It’s also an attitude that students and university employees expect and that we, librarians, want to develop. In the articl...
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Medical University of Warsaw
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| author | Katarzyna Falow Małgorzata Florianowicz |
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| description | Openness in librarianship is, obviously, not limited to expanding access to scholarly materials and supporting the advancement of science by promoting the Open Access movement. It’s also an attitude that students and university employees expect and that we, librarians, want to develop. In the article, we present the results of soft skills research that we conducted in conjunction with MUG's Employee Development Support Department, supplemented with examples of initiatives undertaken by the Main Library in 2021 or planned for 2022. By describing these activities, we seek to confirm the thesis that nowadays substantive skills without openness are like books locked in a closet or computers without electricity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5e354824833641959b2907eab71f88e72022-12-22T02:48:10ZengMedical University of WarsawForum Bibliotek Medycznych1899-58292450-04372022-05-01142455210.34738/mlf.0059Required skills, desired traits... Openness as the key attitude. From researching soft skills to examining activities taken by the staff of MUG's Main Library when faced with changes, challenges and novel situationsKatarzyna Falow0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5832-1112Małgorzata Florianowicz1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7031-4553Main Library, Medical University of Gdańsk, PolandMain Library, Medical University of Gdańsk, PolandOpenness in librarianship is, obviously, not limited to expanding access to scholarly materials and supporting the advancement of science by promoting the Open Access movement. It’s also an attitude that students and university employees expect and that we, librarians, want to develop. In the article, we present the results of soft skills research that we conducted in conjunction with MUG's Employee Development Support Department, supplemented with examples of initiatives undertaken by the Main Library in 2021 or planned for 2022. By describing these activities, we seek to confirm the thesis that nowadays substantive skills without openness are like books locked in a closet or computers without electricity.https://fbm.wum.edu.pl/02-14-2021/0059main library of the medical university of gdańsklibrarian soft skillsresearch on soft skillslibraries |
| spellingShingle | Katarzyna Falow Małgorzata Florianowicz Required skills, desired traits... Openness as the key attitude. From researching soft skills to examining activities taken by the staff of MUG's Main Library when faced with changes, challenges and novel situations Forum Bibliotek Medycznych main library of the medical university of gdańsk librarian soft skills research on soft skills libraries |
| title | Required skills, desired traits... Openness as the key attitude. From researching soft skills to examining activities taken by the staff of MUG's Main Library when faced with changes, challenges and novel situations |
| title_full | Required skills, desired traits... Openness as the key attitude. From researching soft skills to examining activities taken by the staff of MUG's Main Library when faced with changes, challenges and novel situations |
| title_fullStr | Required skills, desired traits... Openness as the key attitude. From researching soft skills to examining activities taken by the staff of MUG's Main Library when faced with changes, challenges and novel situations |
| title_full_unstemmed | Required skills, desired traits... Openness as the key attitude. From researching soft skills to examining activities taken by the staff of MUG's Main Library when faced with changes, challenges and novel situations |
| title_short | Required skills, desired traits... Openness as the key attitude. From researching soft skills to examining activities taken by the staff of MUG's Main Library when faced with changes, challenges and novel situations |
| title_sort | required skills desired traits openness as the key attitude from researching soft skills to examining activities taken by the staff of mug s main library when faced with changes challenges and novel situations |
| topic | main library of the medical university of gdańsk librarian soft skills research on soft skills libraries |
| url | https://fbm.wum.edu.pl/02-14-2021/0059 |
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