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Cram, Jennifer – Australian Library Journal, 2011
At the time of writing the original paper my viewpoint was a personal one, one that focussed on the status within the profession of equally qualified librarians based purely on the perceived status conferred by the type of libraries in which they worked. However, it must now be observed that the world in which public librarians operated then was…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Librarians, Library Role, Institutional Role

Raymond, Boris; Adams, Kimberblee – Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 1993
Discusses changes taking place in the library systems of Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. Topics reviewed include the influence of Soviet Russian library theory and practices; decentralization of library administration; library finances; library education; library employment; library technology; and censorship and collection policies.…
Descriptors: Censorship, Change, Employment Opportunities, Foreign Countries
White, Herbert S. – 2000
This book is a collection of the author's following publications and speeches, primarily from 1995-2000: "Look at All Those Beautiful Birds Overhead!""Priorities for the Research Library Budget,""What Do We Give 'Em?""The Legacy of John Swan,""Small Public Libraries-Challenges, Opportunities, and Irrelevancies,""Lead Me Not into Temptation To Do…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Higher Education, Information Technology, Librarians

Dick, Archie L. – Library Quarterly, 1995
When library education was institutionalized at universities, it pursued a social scientific path of disciplinary growth; objectivity and neutrality became ideals of library education. A different conception of social science provides the basis for recent challenges to the library and information science profession's traditional perception of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Higher Education, Information Science, Library Development

Richardson, John V., Jr.; Audunson, Ragnar; Lynch, Beverly; Marcum, Deanna; Moran, Barbara B.; Walter, Virginia A.; Weingand, Darlene – Library Quarterly, 2000
This column presents views of professionals in the library and information studies (LIS) field and assess the state of LIS research. Questions are posed to researchers and practitioners in various LIS fields, asking them to address where they think the research front is. Six respondents focus their discussions on library and information center…
Descriptors: Information Centers, Information Industry, Information Science, Library Administration
Haiqun, Ma – 2001
Based on an analysis of the direction of library development and changes in librarians' social functions, this paper presents some key measures in the reform of library and information science education. The first section discusses the developing direction of the library cause under the network environment. The second section covers librarians'…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Information Literacy, Information Science Education
Nitecki, Joseph Z. – 1996
This document is based on transcripts of recorded informal interviews with: (1) selected senior professors in the library schools at Warsaw, Krakow, and Wroclaw (Poland); (2) the director and a member of the Books and Readers Institute of the National Polish Libraries; and (3) a group of Polish librarians and students in the field. The report…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries, Government Role

McGrath, William E. – Library Trends, 1985
Reviews meaning and theory of library collections and structure and enumerates ways that data on collections can be organized to reveal underlying global structure (links and connections between collections, parts of collections, and users of collections). Definitions of terms applying to eight models described in text are appended. (53…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Library Collection Development, Library Collections, Library Cooperation

Govan, James F. – Journal of Library Administration, 1987
Discusses the impact of technological advancement on academic libraries and predicts the types of changes that may occur in the role of libraries and librarians, collection development, access to information, financing, and facilities. (CLB)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Budgets, Futures (of Society)
Wilson Library Bulletin, 1985
Six articles provide an overview of map librarianship in the United States and highlight the following areas: microphotography, cartography's photographic revolution; major sources for map acquisitions; preservation (processes, equipment, and supply dealers); map collections in public libraries; and suggestions for improvement in map…
Descriptors: Cartography, Information Storage, Library Acquisition, Library Collection Development

Butler, Meredith A.; DeSole, Gloria R. – Journal of Library Administration, 1993
Examines activities of academic librarians and library educators regarding issues of affirmative action recruiting to increase diversity within the profession. Highlights include a description of multicultural organizations; the significance of leadership; efforts of the Association of Research Libraries; examples of diversity programs at academic…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Affirmative Action, Cultural Differences, Higher Education

Bechtel, Joan M. – College and Research Libraries, 1986
This essay suggests that conversation, crucial for human life in society and intrinsic to nature of libraries, may be the appropriate model for providing guidance, means, and context for change in academic librarianship. The business model, missions and goals, collection development, bibliographic instruction, and organizational considerations are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change Strategies, Higher Education, Interpersonal Communication

Buckland, Michael K. – Library Trends, 1986
Divides librarianship into three categories with respect to change--library values, library technology, and library science--and discusses each in the context of changes in the last century to provide a basis for forecasting future changes. The broadening scope of librarianship and the library school curriculum of the future are also considered.…
Descriptors: Change, Curriculum, Educational Trends, Futures (of Society)
Ezzell, Joline, Ed. – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1985
Nine articles in this issue cover topics currently being discussed in serials librarianship: historical development, impact of technology, relationship of librarians and publishers of serials, collection development, management of serials automation, serials conversion, automated serials control, MARC format for holdings and locations, a union…
Descriptors: History, Librarians, Library Administration, Library Automation

Freiband, Susan J. – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 1992
Identifies multilingual and multicultural issues relevant to library and information science curricula today and outlines the skills, knowledge, and attitudes needed by graduates to address these issues. Aspects of the curriculum, specific programs, and activities on which to focus are discussed. (13 references) (EA)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development, Higher Education