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Title Challenging the "Jacks of all trades but masters of none" librarian syndrome / edited by George J. Fowler, Samantha Schmehl Hines
Published United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing, 2018

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Series Advances in library administration and organization ; volume 39
Advances in library administration and organization ; volume 39
Contents 1. 'Vital Assets': Libraries as Partners in Community Development; Julie Biando Edwards 2. Inside-Out Library Services; Julie Biando Edwards 3. Where the Users Are: Reconsidering Information Provision Through Roving Models of Service; Matthew R. Griffis 4. The New "Jack of All": The Evolution of the Functionality and Focus of the Academic Librarian in New Spaces and New Roles; Lynn A. Sheehan, Elizabeth A. Martin 5. Responding to Change: Reinventing Librarian Identities in the Age of Research Mandates; Ann Glusker, Nina Exner 6. Academic Librarian and Practitioner Collaborative Research Model: A Diagrammatic Metaphor; Amy Hatfield Hart 7. "Other Duties as Assigned': Academic Librarians' Perceptions of the Impact of Instructional Tasks; David Brennan, M. Elizabeth Davidson 8. The Role of Public Librarians in Supporting Physical Activity; Noah Lenstra
Summary 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. This volume will explore the current purpose of librarianship and libraries, how we become "Masters of our Domains", develop expertise in various elements of the profession, and how we extend outward into our communities
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 10, 2018)
Subject Library science.
Librarians.
Library Science
Librarians
library science.
librarians.
Library & information sciences.
Library, archive & information management.
Library & information services.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- General.
Librarians
Library science
Form Electronic book
Author Fowler, George J., editor
Hines, Samantha (Samantha Schmehl), editor.
ISBN 9781787569034
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1787569055
9781787569058