Main entry:

Lankes, R. David, 1970- author.

Title & Author:

The atlas of new librarianship / R. David Lankes.

Edition:

First MIT Press paperback edition.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 2016.
©2011

Description:

xv, 408 pages : illustrations (chielfy colour), map ; 26 cm + 1 chart (67 x 89 cm, folded to 23 x 18 cm)

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
An introduction to the atlas -- The atlas -- Threads -- Knowledge creation -- Facilitating -- communities -- Improve society -- Librarians -- Threads postscript -- Web citations -- Agreement supplements -- ability to work in interdisciplinary teams -- Academic -- Access -- Administration -- Agreements -- Ambiguity is essential for professional work -- Annotations -- Application builders -- Archives -- Artifacts -- Assessment -- Authoritative versus authoritarian -- avoiding the Florentine dilemma -- Bachelor of information and instructional design -- boundary issues -- Cataloging relationships -- circulation -- circulation -- Co-learning -- collection development -- communications -- community as collection -- computer science -- constructivism -- conversants -- conversation theory -- core skills -- core values -- creating a new social compact -- creating an agenda -- credibility -- curriculum of communication and change over traditional ideas of leadership -- death of documents -- democracy and openness overshadowed by technology -- department of justice -- dialectic theories -- Different communities librarians serve -- digital environment -- education -- embedded librarians -- entailment mesh -- entrepreneurim -- environment -- ethics -- every course has symposia and practice -- evolution of integrated library systems -- evolution of systems -- evolution of the social compact -- extrinsic -- free library of Philadelphia -- from authority to reliability -- from school to school of thought -- gaming -- getting past the L V I debate -- go to the conversation -- government -- Growing importance of two-way infrastructure -- humanities -- Hybrid environments -- importance of a worldview -- importance of action and activism -- importance of technical skills -- importance of theory and deep concepts -- increase friction in the process -- information organization -- information science -- information seeking -- information services -- infrastructure providers -- innovation -- innovation versus entrepreneurship -- institute for advanced librarianship idea -- intellectual freedom and safety -- intellectually honest not unbiased -- internet model example -- intrinsic -- invest in tools of creation over collection of artifacts -- issues of institutional repositories -- Knowledge -- Knowledge is created through conversation -- L0 -- L1 -- Language -- Leadership -- Learning -- Learning theory -- Libraries are in the knowledge business, therefore the conversation business -- library infrastructure -- limitations of tagging -- LIS education -- longitude example -- mapping conversations -- massive scale -- means of facilitation -- meeting spaces -- members not patrons or users -- memory -- motivation -- motivation theories -- music center -- need for an executive doctorate -- need for an expanded definition of literacy -- Need to expand the educational ladder -- obligation of leadership -- Open source -- openness -- paraprofessionals -- physical environments -- policy -- postmodernism -- pressure for participation -- public -- public service -- publisher of community -- recognize a school as participatory network -- reference -- reference extract -- relation to other domains -- risks of data -- scapes -- scholarly communication -- school -- school information management systems -- selective dissemination of information -- sense-making -- service -- service is not invisibility -- shared shelves with the community -- shelving -- shift in innovation from academy to ubiquity -- social justice issues -- social literacy -- social network sites -- source amnesia -- special -- system view -- tcp-ip -- the mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities -- topical centers with curriculum -- Transition of traditional skills -- True facilitation means shared ownership -- Truly distributed digital library -- User -- User systems -- User-based design -- vital role of mentors -- warehouse functions -- web 2.0 -- writing center.

Summary:

"In essential guide to a librarianship based not on books and artifacts but on knowledge and learning"--Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9780262529921 (pbk.)
0262529920 (pbk.)
9780262015097 (alk. paper)
0262015099 (alk. paper)
(electronic bk.)
9780262300087

Subject:

Library science Philosophy.
Library science Forecasting.
Libraries and community.
Libraries and society.
Inquiry (Theory of knowledge)
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Bibliothéconomie Philosophie.
Bibliothéconomie Prévision.
Relations bibliothèque-collectivité.
Bibliothèques et société.
Recherche (Théorie de la connaissance)
Sociologie de la connaissance.
sociology of knowledge.
Libraries and Museums.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293407
Call No.: BIB 238330
Status: Available