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TY  - BOOK
ID  - 32293343
TI  - The new librarianship field guide
PY  - 2016
SN  - 9780262529082 9780262334600 0262334607 9780262334617 0262334615 9780262334594 0262334593 0262529084
PB  - Cambridge, Mass. The MIT Press
DB  - UniCat
KW  - Library science
KW  - Libraries and community.
KW  - Libraries and society.
KW  - Librarians
KW  - Bibliothéconomie
KW  - Relations bibliothèque-collectivité
KW  - Bibliothèques et société
KW  - Bibliothécaires
KW  - Philosophy.
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Library management
KW  - Information scientists
KW  - Library employees
KW  - Libraries
KW  - Society and libraries
KW  - Community and libraries
KW  - Communities
KW  - Attitudes.
KW  - INFORMATION SCIENCE/Library Science
KW  - INFORMATION SCIENCE/Technology & Policy
KW  - EDUCATION/General
UR  - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32293343
AB  - This book offers a guide for librarians who see their profession as a chance to make a positive difference in their communities?librarians who recognize that it is no longer enough to stand behind a desk waiting to serve. R. David Lankes, author of The Atlas of New Librarianship, reminds librarians of their mission: to improve society by facilitating knowledge creation in their communities. In this book, he provides tools, arguments, resources, and ideas for fulfilling this mission. Librarians will be prepared to become radical positive change agents in their communities, and other readers will learn to understand libraries in a new way.  The librarians of Ferguson, Missouri, famously became positive change agents in August 2014 when they opened library doors when schools were closed because of civil unrest after the shooting of an unarmed teen by police. Working with other local organizations, they provided children and their parents a space for learning, lunch, and peace. But other libraries serve other communities?students, faculty, scholars, law firms?in other ways. All libraries are about community, writes Lankes; that is just librarianship.   In concise chapters, Lankes addresses the mission of libraries and explains what constitutes a library. He offers practical advice for librarian training; provides teaching notes for each chapter; and answers ?Frequently Argued Questions? about the new librarianship.
ER  -