Challenging the "Jacks of all trades but masters of none" librarian syndrome /
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....
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bingley, U.K. :
Emerald Publishing Limited,
2018.
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| Series: | Advances in library administration and organization,
volume 39 |
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/S0732-0671201839 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.