Librarians

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Introduction

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Required Readings

The librarians thread in Lankes, R. David (2011). The atlas of new librarianship. MITPress, Cambridge. pgs 137-185

Related Agreement Supplements from the Atlas:

Ability to Work in Interdisciplinary Teams
Administration
Ambiguity is Essential for Professional Work
Avoiding the Florentine Dilemma
Bachelor of Information and Instructional Design
Cataloging Relationships
Circulation
Co-Learning
Collection Development
Communications
Community as Collection
Computer Science
Core Skills
Curriculum of Communication and Change over Traditional Ideas of Leadership
Education
Every Course has Symposia and Practica
Evolution of Integrated Library Systems
Evolution of Systems
From School to School of Thought
Getting Past the L v I Debate
Humanities
Importance of Action and Activism
Importance of Technical Skills
Increase Friction in the Process
Information Organization
Information Science
Information Seeking
Institute for Advanced Librarianship Idea
Issues of Institutional Repositories
LIS Education
Massive Scale
Need for an Executive Doctorate
Need to Expand the Educational Ladder
Obligation of Leadership
Para-professionals
Postmodernism
Public Service
Recognize a School as a Participatory Network
Reference
Relation to other Domains
Scapes
Shelving
Shift in Innovation from Academy to Ubiquity
The Mission of Librarians is to Improve Society through Facilitating Knowledge Creation in their Communities
Transition of Traditional Skills
Vital Roles of Mentors
Warehousing Functions

For more information and discussion on the core comptencies of librarians, see the Salzburg Curriculum module. This work, that post-dates the Atlas of New Librarianship represents an attempt to better define professional competencies in a curricular context, and across librarians and museum professionals.

 

Slides (PDF Versions of the slides used in this module.)

Introduction

 

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