Awards
- Winner of <PrizeName>ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Award for the Best Book in Library Literature, 2012</PrizeName> 2012
- Winner of ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Award for the Best Book in Library Literature, 2012 2012
- Winner of ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Award for the Best Book in Library Literature, 2012</PrizeName> 2012
Overview
An essential guide to a librarianship based not on books and artifacts but on knowledge and learning.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 technology and the Internet; it must provide a durable foundation for the field. Lankes recasts librarianship and library practice using the fundamental concept that knowledge is created though conversation. New librarians approach their work as facilitators of conversation; they seek to enrich, capture, store, and disseminate the conversations of their communities. To help librarians navigate this new terrain, Lankes offers a map, a visual representation of the field that can guide explorations of it; more than 140 Agreements, statements about librarianship that range from relevant theories to examples of practice; and Threads, arrangements of Agreements to explain key ideas, covering such topics as conceptual foundations and skills and values. Agreement Supplements at the end of the book offer expanded discussions. Although it touches on theory as well as practice, the Atlas is meant to be a tool- textbook, conversation guide, platform for social networking, and call to action. Copublished with the Association of College & Research Libraries.
Full Product Details
Author: R. David Lankes (Director and Associate Dean, University of South Carolina)
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
Imprint: MIT Press
Dimensions:
Width: 25.40cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 1.633kg
ISBN: 9780262529921
ISBN 10: 0262529920
Pages: 424
Publication Date: 02 September 2016
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
[T]he text covers such a vast array of pertinent subjects that almost any reader...may find a few topics of personal interest. The Futurist
[T]he text covers such a vast array of pertinent subjects that almost any reader...may find a few topics of personal interest. -The Futurist Our profession's Finnegans Wake. -Publishers Weekly
Our profession's Finnegans Wake. * Publishers Weekly * [T]he text covers such a vast array of pertinent subjects that almost any reader...may find a few topics of personal interest. * <i>The Futurist</i> *
Author Information
R. David Lankes is Professor and Dean's Scholar for New Librarianship in Syracuse University's School of Information Studies and received the 2016 American Library Association Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship.
