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

• 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
• Θέματα: Library science.; Librarians.; Language Arts & Disciplines > Library & Information Science > General.; Library & information sciences.

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....

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.