| Description |
xv, 408 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm. + 1 chart (67 x 89 cm., folded to 23 x18 cm.) |
| Note |
Includes 1 folded chart in pocket inside back cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
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? 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. |
| Subject |
Library science -- Philosophy.
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Library science -- Forecasting.
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Libraries and community.
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Libraries and society.
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| ISBN |
9780262015097 alkaline paper |
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0262015099 alkaline paper |
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9780262515665 paperback alkaline paper |
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0262515660 paperback alkaline paper |
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