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The Academic Librarian as Blended Professional - Reassessing and Redefining the Role (Paperback)
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The Academic Librarian as Blended Professional - Reassessing and Redefining the Role (Paperback)
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The Academic Librarian as Blended Professional employs a model that
allows for individual and managerial reconceptualization of the
librarian's role, also helping to mitigate obstacles to
professional development both internal and external to the library.
Using traditional and personal narrative, the book extends
Whitchurch's blended professional model, designed to consider the
merging of academicians' roles across several spheres of
professional and academic influence in a higher education setting,
to academic librarians. The book is significant due to its use of
higher education theory to examine the professional identity of
academic librarians and the issues impacting librarian professional
development. The work offers a constructive, replicable research
design appropriate for the analysis of librarians in other academic
settings, providing additional insights into how these
professionals might perceive their roles within the larger context
of a higher education environment. Following the application of the
blended professional model, this book contends that academic
librarians have similar roles concerning research, instruction, and
service when compared to an institution's tenure-track faculty. The
scope of professional productivity and the expectation of the
librarians, though, are much less regimented. Consequently, the
academic librarians find themselves in a tenuous working space
where their blended role is inhibited by real and perceived
barriers.
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