Reviews for Communicating Professionally: A How-to-Do-It Manual for Librarians

The average rating for Communicating Professionally: A How-to-Do-It Manual for Librarians based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-07-29 00:00:00 Lewis Preston This was a good overview of communication from a librarian's perspective. I feel like this might be something I would grab off the shelf after a frustrating day of bad communication with patrons or co-workers and it would give me some much-needed guidance.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-05-31 00:00:00 Joseph Abruzzo Well written and full of communication advice - some of it rather obvious, and some quite insightful. The book is well structured (although as suggested, I did start with Chapter 5 and then skip back to Chapters 1-4 which I thought worked well). I liked the pedagogical philosophy behind the authors' encouragement to learn a skill, practice it, and ultimately teach it to someone else to really solidify your mastery. Some later chapters felt a big tedious and long-winded (like the ones on proposal writing and presentations), but this could just be a side effect of the large-format layout with ample margins for notes. I got most of my insights out of the first four chapters.