Strategies for Regenerating the Library and Information Profession

Authors

Jana Varlejs
Graham Walton
Heidi Blackburn, University of Nebraska at OmahaFollow
Alysia Starkey
Kate Wise

Files

Description

Editors: Jana Varlejs and Graham Walton

Chapter, Generational Tug-of-War – Playing Nice Between Millennials and Baby Boomers in a Multi-Generational Staff, co-authored by Heidi Blackburn, UNO faculty member.

This volume comprises papers prepared for the 8th World Conference on Continuing Professional Development (Bologna, Italy, 18-20 August 2009). Within the broad theme of creating a positive work environment for a multi-generational workforce in library and information organizations, the conference addresses managing between and across generations, mentoring and coaching, attracting people to the profession and developing a new generation of leaders, re-skilling and transferability of skills, succession planning and passing on knowledge.

ISBN

978-3598220449

Publication Date

2009

Publisher

K. G. Sauer

City

München

Department

Library

Comments

Part of the IFLA series.

Recommended Citation

Blackburn, H., Starkey, A., & Wise, K. (2009). Generational Tug-of-War: Playing Nice between Millennials and Baby Boomers in a Multi-Generational Staff. In J. Varlejs & G. Walton (Eds.), Eighth World Conference on Continuing Professional Development and Workplace Learning for the Library and Information Professions: Vol. 139. Strategies for Regenerating the Library and Information Professions (pp. 148-157). Munich: Walter de Gruyter & Co.