Public Speaking Handbook for Librarians and Information Professionals

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McFarland, 2010 M07 27 - 175 páginas

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.

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Introduction
1
Lend Me Your Ears
7
Doing the Prep Work
13
Imposing Order You Know You Want To
20
The Calm Before the Storm
28
OvertureCurtain Lights
35
Discussion and Participation
44
Interviewing
53
Library Instruction
76
Meetings
89
Presentations to Large Groups
101
Interviews with Library Professionals
109
The Speakers Bookshelf
133
Presentation Software Tips
146
Bibliography
153
Index
161

Interpersonal Communication
63

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Página 135 - The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.
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Página 93 - They state that conflict is an expressed struggle between at least two interdependent parties who perceive incompatible goals, scarce rewards, and interference from the other party in achieving their goals.
Página 38 - For of the three elements in speech-making — speaker, subject, and person addressed — it is the last one, the hearer, that determines the speech's end and object.
Página 33 - Still, the whole business of rhetoric being concerned with appearances, we must pay attention to the subject of delivery, unworthy though it is, because we cannot do without it.
Página 18 - Tell them what you're going to tell them. Tell them. Then tell them what you've told them.
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Sarah R. Statz is a library assistant for the Madison Public Library system in Madison, Wisconsin, and a freelance indexer.

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