what is a medical librarian? he provides information about new medical treatments, clinical trials and standard trials procedures, tests and equipment. where do medical librarians work? they work anywhere health information is needed. what kinds of jobs are available? web managers, medical informatics experts, chief information officers, cat a logers, instructors and reference librarians. who a...

Teaching roles in academic libraries can be accompanied by a great deal of anxiety. This study surveyed librarian attitudes toward their teaching role and librarians’ experiences with Sixty-four percent librarians participating the survey said they experienced anxiety, including 65.10 experiencing physical symptoms 73.43 who anxiety psychological symptoms. Findings indicate tension between sust...

Michel Foucault (1926–84) is a primary thinker informing the construction of a critical theory of library and information science (LIS), or librarianship. He is widely cited and is adapted in various ways that focus on LIS forms of power, discourse, and so on. Others have addressed Foucault’s topics, but he remains central. Librarianship has taken up a prior challenge to more fully explore his ...

Library education all over world is under many pressures, which are enumerated. The paper concentrates on the relation between subject of librarianship, the subject of information science and the accommodation of information science in library education. Library education needs to take into account advances in information science because they provide neva theoretical frameworks and new professi...

The concept of “incarnational ministry,” which is often taught in cross-cultural ministry or missions training, offers practical value to academic liaison librarianship, namely: getting out the library and going where users are, being a life-long learner, modeling humility during interactions with patrons.

This paper explores the topic of leadership as perceived and practised by public library leaders. Library leaders have a wide-ranging impact on society but have been largely overlooked as the subject of serious study. Prior to this study, only one small interview-based study and five survey-based studies have been undertaken on public library leaders/leadership — all in North America. The curre...

Affirmative action in academic libraries has had limited success in improving the percentage of minorities in librarianship. Alternative strategies to correct the unequal representation of minorities in academic libraries are suggested. The authors suggest that more emphasis on the value of establishing an environment of greater cultural diversity within the academic library as well as increasi...