Divided Libraries
Title | Divided Libraries PDF eBook |
Author | T.D. Webb |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2012-09-12 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 078646478X |
Given the highly trained library workforce now available and the vast and growing array of packaging information and knowledge, libraries have the capacity to become pre-eminent places of learning, research, and teaching. Yet, despite this potential, libraries remain divided from their constituencies and their governing bodies, be they students, faculties, university administrations, municipal governments, or ordinary citizens. Indeed, many modern university administrators, viewing librarians as ancillary citizens in academe, have allowed their libraries to wither under the burden of shrinking budgets, staffing inadequacies, and deteriorating facilities. This thought-provoking volume by a 35-year veteran of academic libraries identifies, diagnoses, and provides remedies to the damaging divisions in and between libraries and librarianship, arguing that the processes of teaching constitute the genuine context in which to steer librarianship into the future.
Public Libraries in the United States of America
Title | Public Libraries in the United States of America PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Bureau of Education |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1238 |
Release | 1876 |
Genre | Libraries |
ISBN |
Decimal Classification and Relativ Index for Libraries, Clippings, Notes, Etc
Title | Decimal Classification and Relativ Index for Libraries, Clippings, Notes, Etc PDF eBook |
Author | Melvil Dewey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 812 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Classification, Decimal |
ISBN |
Summary of the Literature on the Divided Catalog
Title | Summary of the Literature on the Divided Catalog PDF eBook |
Author | New York Public Library. Reference Department |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 1957 |
Genre | Library catalogs |
ISBN |
Spanning the Theory-practice Divide in Library and Information Science
Title | Spanning the Theory-practice Divide in Library and Information Science PDF eBook |
Author | William A. Crowley |
Publisher | Scarecrow Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780810851658 |
Reveals how practitioners, consultants, and faculty can derive theories from actual experience and use such theories in solving real world problems. Bill Crowley explores why theory, in particular theory developed by university and college faculty, is too little used in the off-campus world. The volume examines the importance of solving the theory irrelevance problem, and drawing on a broad spectrum of research and theoretical insights, it provides suggestions for overcoming the not-so-hidden secret of the academic world - why theory with little or no perceived relevance to off-campus environments can be absolutely essential to advancing faculty careers. It also addresses the implications for theory development of fundamental aspects of the American culture and economy, including: the American ambivalence towards intellectuals, the rise in the "theory-unfriendly" environments of for-profit educational institutions, and public demands for enhanced accountability.
Special Libraries
Title | Special Libraries PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | Bibliography |
ISBN |
Most vols. include Proceedings of the Special Libraries Association.
Library Journal
Title | Library Journal PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 492 |
Release | 1889 |
Genre | |
ISBN |