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The Importance of Worldview
The Importance of Worldview from R. David Lankes on Vimeo.
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The Mission of Librarians
Mission of Librarians from R. David Lankes on Vimeo.
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Explore This:
“The New Librarianship Worldview” https://vimeo.com/50799677
“Reinventing Librarianship” https://vimeo.com/26701609
Read This:
Required Readings:
The mission thread in Lankes, R. David (2011). The atlas of new librarianship. MITPress, Cambridge. pgs 14-29
Related Agreement Supplements from the Atlas:
Constructivism
Conversation Theory
Creating a new social compact
Credibility
Dialectic Theories
Evolution of the social compact
Importance of a worldview
Importance of theory and deep concepts
Learning Theory
Longitude example
Motivation
Motivation Theories
Postmodernism
Sense Making
The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities
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