ing experiences of critical library instructors within various institutional settings, such as community colleges, service-learning programs, and high schools. Topics presented in this section include the importance of collaboration between librarians and departmental faculty, and the overlap between service-learning and information literacy. Section four discusses the use of un-conventional te...

background: with the recent spread of virtual learning programs in universities, especially in the field of medical sciences, libraries play a crucial role to support these programs. this study aimed at investigating the skills required by librarians to support virtual learning programs in isfahan university and isfahan university of medical sciences.   methods: this was an applied survey study...

Recent controversies in Canadian librarianship—the Toronto Public Library room rental to a "gender-critical feminist" group and the institution of “airport-style” security at Winnipeg Library—have exposed divisions within profession. This article attempts untangle relationship libraries state power explores hegemonic leadership library It also investigates part played by politics recognition, b...

The information ethics of Luciano Floridi’s well-known Philosophy of Information (PI) project are explored as potential foundations for a deepening sense of stewardship in library and information studies (LIS) practice. The implications of PI’s world view of “information objects” as having intrinsic value and resulting moral rights within the evolving “infosphere” are discussed in the context o...

We show that small, specialist libraries (SSLs) can play different organisational roles and serve their users in a different way to more standard academic or commercial libraries. Most digital library (DL) frameworks and models are essentially based on surrogating the services that academic or commercial libraries supply, and so such frameworks may not be applicable to SSLs. This paper discusse...

” A N D LISTS THK EIGHT VALL~ESderived by the author in an earlier work. Gives a brief history of the evolution of human-to-human reference service and discusses its future. Relates each of the author’s eight values to the practice of human-to-human reference. Concludes with some thoughts on librail. instruction. In a hubristic act in my book Our End71ri179 IhZzieJ (Gorman, 2000), I formulated ...

Maybe it’s unsurprising that I think about scholarly communication in terms similar to U.S. politics. originally drafted this article for the Library Publishing Coalition blog before 2020 election and revised it C&RL News during weirdly long interregnum period actual inauguration. The 2016 Republican National Committee was backdrop my becoming a librarian February of year. That’s also when ...

Foster Edward Mohrhardt was a librarian in federal libraries for much of his career and served as the director of the National Agricultural Library from 1954 to 1968. Throughout his long library career, he used the freedom of his directorship to participate in a variety of high-level projects across organizations. This role served both to advance the prestige of the National Agricultural Librar...

Trapped by faculty apathy and library uncertainty, institutional repositories face a crossroads: adapt or die. The “build it and they will come” proposition has been decisively proven wrong. Citation advantages and preservation have not attracted faculty participants, though current-generation software and services offer faculty little else. Academic librarianship has not supported repositories...

Trends from both within and without public librarianship create new opportunities for libraries to serve the public’s interest in heritage information. Based on a workshop series in Illinois, this article presents exploratory findings on existing public library heritage services and how cyberorganizing can enhance these services. Public libraries offer heterogeneous heritage services in local c...