This volume of Advances in Library Administration and Organization
offers papers of interest to practitioners and researchers in the
library community throughout the world.. All of the papers in one
way or another address the tension between what researchers can
deliver, what they define as reputable knowledge, and what library
practitioners need to know "to get the job done." While these
papers differ from each other by problem, scale, methodology and
theory, one question "What can science tell us about practice?"
unites them all. These papers include a discussion of the
principles that underlie collection development, two papers that
critically examine the relation between distance learning and on
site library service and two more papers that use the notion of
sense making to look at what the terms leadership and public space
mean when we talk about libraries.
The last three papers address a series of pragmatic issues
anyone who works within a library can identify with, namely, "what
does it mean to "market" a library," "how can we define "value" in
relation to what goes on in a library and create "value" for our
communities," and, finally, "What constitutes and impedes 'success"
for library professionals?," especially if those who are minority
women.
These papers, taken together, raise the issues of how well we
understand, researchers and practitioners alike, the institutions
we study, manage and work within. What we in the profession often
regard as common sense and "good practice" may not really be
either. In short, these papers point to a number of issues, ones we
often do not even acknowledge, that researchers need to help
practitioners address if science is to makea difference in how
librarians understand and manage the institutions they work
within.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
