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.
General
Imprint: |
McFarland & Company
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2012 |
First published: |
April 2012 |
Authors: |
T.D. Webb
|
Dimensions: |
10 x 7 x 13mm (L x W x H) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
215 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7864-6478-4 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-7864-6478-X |
Barcode: |
9780786464784 |
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