TY  - BOOK
AU  - Devarajan, G. 
TI  - Renewing professional librarianship: C. A. Augustine festschrift  
SN  - 8170001242
AV  - Z665.2.U6 C76 2008
U1  - 020  
PY  - 1991///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Ess Ess
KW  - Library science
KW  - United States
KW  - Canada
KW  - Library education
KW  - Library schools
KW  - Accreditation
KW  - Librarians
KW  - Certification
KW  - Libraries
KW  - Aims and objectives
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-165) and index; Introduction -- Librarian professionalism and professional library education -- "What's the story?" -- The information-library conundrum -- The ebbing of information science -- Restoring the balance
N2  - "Can professional librarianship exist, let alone thrive, in the 21st century? Does accreditation protect the profession, or reduce it to a minor component of information science? The prognosis is not good, claims cultural pragmatist Bill Crowley, with worse to follow unless library studies and information studies are viewed as separate cognate areas." "While an information-centric definition may be appropriate for corporate information specialists, academic, public, and school librarians are already suffering the effects of devaluation. The remedy, Crowley says, is to embrace a concept called lifecycle librarianship, the ability to meet crucial public needs "from the lapsit to the nursing home," by honing the library's time-honored role as a vital resource for reading and lifelong learning."; "Renewing Professional Librarianship concludes with a series of recommendations for library associations, library and information education educators, and practitioners - and a challenge for the reader to do something with them!"--Back cover
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