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Smith, Daniella – School Library Media Research, 2011
The purpose of this study was to determine the factors that impacted the level of self-perceived transformational leadership potential in preservice school librarians who participated in a master's degree program in library and information studies focusing on leadership development. A mixed-method concurrent triangulation research design was…
Descriptors: Mentors, Poverty, Leadership Training, National Norms
Christ, John M. – Coll Res Libr, 1969
Descriptors: Library Research, Library Science, Research Methodology, Social Environment
Oberg, Larry R. – 1980
This paper traces a brief history of the development of American librarianship as a profession and examines the social climate from which it emerged. Several traditional and modern models of professionalism are discussed and applied to librarianship. Shortcomings of the profession, e.g., its scholarship and the non-prescriptive nature of its…
Descriptors: Library Role, Library Science, Professional Development, Professional Recognition
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Sever, Shmuel – Journal of Education for Librarianship, 1981
Traces the trends and patterns that characterize library education and librarianship in Israel, including influences of various cultural traditions, the history of Israeli library education, the roles of major Israeli library educators, and the development of graduate curricula. Forty-seven references are listed. (FM)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cultural Influences, Curriculum Development, Higher Education
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Engle, Michael O. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1986
Examines factors of philosophical significance to college librarianship that provide direction for daily decisions: growth of bibliographic instruction--role of metaphysical and metaphorical; need to integrate values of liberal education; understanding of social context--humanistic roots; and understanding of librarian's role of intervenor,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Liberalism, Librarians
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Logan, Elisabeth; Hsieh-Yee, Ingrid – Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), 2001
Reviews major aspects of library and information science education during the decade of the 1990s. Topics include historical context; the political climate; copyright, access, and privacy; the social climate; technological context; economic context; changes in administration, the profession, programs, curriculum, and faculty; and future…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Administrative Change, Copyrights, Curriculum