Renewing Professional Librarianship: A Fundamental Rethinking

by Bill Crowley and Bill Crowley

Book Overview

Can professional librarianship exist, let alone thrive, in the 21st century? Does accreditation protect the profession, or reduce it to a minor component of information science? The prognosis is not good, claims cultural pragmatist Bill Crowley, with worse to follow unless library studies and information studies are viewed as separate cognate areas. While an information-centric definition may be appropriate for corporate information specialists, he...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591585546
• ISBN13: 9781591585541
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.1"