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Peer reviewedTucker, John Mark – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1984
Ralph Waldo Emerson's criticism that libraries lack the profession of "professor of books" represents the central problem of bibliographic instruction: an inadequately formed theoretical or conceptual framework. A history of the ideas, notions, terms, and phrases about bibliographic instruction illustrates this. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Liberal Arts, Library Instruction
