Atlas of New Librarianship

Name: Atlas of New Librarianship
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ISBN: 9780262015097

ISBN-10: 0262015099

ISBN-13: 9780262015097

Edition: 2011

Authors: R. David Lankes

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Libraries have existed for millennia, but today the library field is searching for solid footing in an increasingly fragmented (and increasingly digital) information environment. What is librarianship when it is unmoored from cataloging, books, buildings, and committees? In The Atlas of New Librarianship, R. David Lankes offers a guide to this new landscape for practitioners. He describes a new librarianship based not on books and artifacts but on knowledge and learning; and he suggests a new mission for librarians: to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities. The vision for a new librarianship must go beyond finding library-related uses for information…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 4/4/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 424
Size: 10.25" wide x 10.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 4.334
Language: English