Martin H. Raish

Musings, Meanderings, and Monsters, Too

Essays on Academic Librarianship

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Produktbeschreibung

What does the future hold for academic libraries and librarians? These nineteen essays offer some interesting observations and opinions about the problems and issues that are changing academic librarianship as we know it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 269g
• ISBN-13: 9780810847675
• ISBN-10: 0810847671
• Artikelnr.: 21096162

Autorenporträt

Martin Raish is Chair of the Department of Library Instruction and Information Literacy, Brigham Young University. In the past he served as a reference librarian and bibliographer and also as a coordinator for library instruction.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Introduction: Monsters in Our Closets
Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Academic Librarians Offer the Crucial Human Element in
Online Scholarship Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Slipping Sanctuaries Chapter 5
Chapter 3: Moving Beyond the "Re" Generation: Making Libraries and
Librarians Count in the Twenty-first Century Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Reference
Librarians As Wild Animals Chapter 7 Chapter 5: Place and Space: Libraries
and the Cartography of Knowledge Chapter 8 Chapter 6: Ketchup Has Always
Been a Vegetable Chapter 9 Chapter 7: Creating That Teachable Moment
Chapter 10 Chapter 8: A Bookless Society-Who Says? Chapter 11 Chapter 9:
All We Need Is a Fast Horse: Riding Information Literacy into the Academy
Chapter 12 Chapter 10: Information Literacy As Liberal Education: Academic
Libraries, the Teaching Librarian, and Collection Marketing Chapter 13
Chapter 11: From Library-College to Information Literacy: An Evolving
Strategy for Educating Library Users Chapter 14 Chapter 12: Plexus and
Nexus: From Ramelli to Zappa and Beyond Chapter 15 Chapter 13: From
Custodian to Navigator: The Amazing Heroic Journey of the New Information
Specialist Chapter 16 Chapter 14: Giving Away the Keys to the Kingdom
Chapter 17 Chapter 15: Shining Some Light on the Monster Under the Bed: A
Closer Look at the "Doubling of Knowledge" Chapter 18 Chapter 16: Libraries
as Gardens: Using Analogies to Teach the Research Process Chapter 19
Chapter 17: On Specialization Chapter 20 Chapter 18: To (Pre)Serve and
Protect Chapter 21 Chapter 19: Will Time Tame this Tyrant, Too? Chapter 22
Index Chapter 23 Contributors

Rezensionen

...informal ruminations on the disquieting problems that threaten to change academic librarianship as we know it - primarily the escalating need to teach-critical thinking skills and information literacy to students, and the transformative effect of information technology on the profession. College & Research Libraries News