Research Catalog

Title

Re-membering libraries : essays on the profession / by T.D. Webb.

Author

Webb, Terry.

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, ©2000.

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Details

Description

vi, 181 pages; 26 cm

Summary

"The essays in this book - some of them informal, some irreverent - take on such topics as fund-raising, libraries as research institutions, new buildings in the 21st century, digitization in academic libraries, globalization of the American point of view, and the reform of library education. All of the essays address what it is to be a librarian, and what the profession must do to stay at the center of society."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Library science
• Library administration
• Libraries
• library science
• libraries (buildings)
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Bibliothek
• Bibliotheksverwaltung
• Bibliotheekpersoneel
• Beroepspraktijk

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-176) and index.

Contents

Formal organizations: the coming meltdown -- Deep freeze, deep thaw: a model for library change -- Reorganization jam -- Fund-raiding: beatitudes of external support -- Libraries as research institutions -- Where are the fiction books? -- Run, ULISYS: epic of a technophobe -- Rational space and pontoon libraries: further thoughts about library buildings for the 21st century -- The "wrong-question" phenomenon: reference service yesterday and tomorrow -- Antidisestablishmentparaprofessionalism -- Net shift, net work, and retrodig: digitization in 21st-century academic libraries -- In Beijing, it's already Monday: globalizing American librarianship -- Library education reform: a modest proposal -- Citizen Kane in Hawaii -- The radical librarian.

ISBN

• 0786408715
• 9780786408719

LCCN

00038664

OCLC

• ocm43851489
• 43851489
• SCSB-1212432

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library