Challenging the "Jacks of all trades but masters of none" librarian syndrome /

Librarianship may be said to be facing an identity crisis. It may also be said that librarianship has been facing an identity crisis since it was proposed as a profession. With the advent of technology that lowers barriers to the access of information, the mission of a library has become indistinct....

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Fowler, George J., III, 1950- (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Hines, Samantha (Samantha Schmehl) (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
Σειρά:Advances in library administration and organization, volume 39
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505 0 |a Prelims -- "Vital assets": libraries as partners in community development -- Inside-out library services -- Where the users are: reconsidering information provision through roving models of service -- The new "Jack of all": the evolution of the functionality and focus of the academic librarian in new spaces and new roles -- Responding to change: reinventing librarian identities in the age of research mandates -- Academic librarian and practitioner collaborative research model: a diagrammatic metaphor -- "Other duties as assigned": academic librarians perceptions of the impact of instructional tasks -- The role of public librarians in supporting physical activity -- Index. 
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