R. David Lankes

This book offers a guide for librarians who see their profession as a chance to make a positive difference in their communities -- librarians who recognize that it is no longer enough to stand behind a desk waiting to serve. R. David Lankes, author of The Atlas of New Librarianship, reminds librarians of their mission: to improve society by facilitating knowledge creation in their communities. In this book, he provides tools, arguments, resources, and ideas for fulfilling this mission. Librarians will be prepared to become radical positive change agents in their communities, and other readers will learn to understand libraries in a new way. The librarians of Ferguson, Missouri, famously became positive change agents in August 2014 when they opened library doors when schools were closed because of civil unrest after the shooting of an unarmed teen by police. Working with other local organizations, they provided children and their parents a space for learning, lunch, and peace. But other libraries serve other communities -- students, faculty, scholars, law firms -- in other ways. All libraries are about community, writes Lankes; that is just librarianship. In concise chapters, Lankes addresses the mission of libraries and explains what constitutes a library. He offers practical advice for librarian training; provides teaching notes for each chapter; and answers "Frequently Argued Questions" about the new librarianship.

The New Librarianship Field Guide

Libraries have existed for millennia, but today many question their necessity. In an ever more digital and connected world do we still need places of books in our towns, colleges, or schools? If libraries aren't about books, what are they about? In Expect More, David Lankes, winner of the 2012 ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Award for the Best Book in Library Literature, walks you through what to expect out of your library. Lankes argues that communities need libraries that go beyond bricks and mortar and beyond books. We need to expect more out of our libraries. They should be places of learning and advocates for our communities in terms of learning, privacy, intellectual property, and economic development. Expect More is a rallying call to communities to raise the bar, and their expectations, for great libraries.

Demanding Better Libraries for Today's Complex World

Expect More

"Les bibliothèques existent depuis des millénaires, mais sont-elles encore d’actualité aujourd'hui ? Dans un monde de plus en plus numérique et connecté, nos villes, nos collèges et nos écoles doivent-ils encore faire de la place aux livres ? Et si les bibliothèques ne se résument pas à leur collection de livres, quelle est donc leur fonction ? Dans son ouvrage, Lankes soutient que les communautés, pour prospérer, ont besoin de bibliothèques dont les préoccupations dépassent leurs bâtiments et les livres qu’ils contiennent. Nous devons donc attendre davantage de la part de nos bibliothèques. Elles doivent être des lieux d’apprentissage qui ont à cœur les intérêts de leurs communautés sur les enjeux de la protection de la vie privée, de la propriété intellectuelle et du développement économique. Exigeons de meilleures bibliothèques est un cri de ralliement lancé aux communautés pour qu’elles haussent leurs attentes à l’égard des bibliothèques."--Site web de l'éditeur.

plaidoyer pour une bibliothéconomie nouvelle

Exigeons de meilleures bibliothèques

Marie L. Radford

Presents a collection of papers updated from original presentations at the Current and Future Trends conference in Aurora, Colorado, capturing the latest innovations in reference work and exploring possible future trends.

Current and Future Trends

Reference Renaissance

"Libraries have existed for millennia, but today the library field is searching for solid footing in an increasingly fragmented (and increasingly digital) information environment. What is librarianship when it is unmoored from cataloging, books, buildings, and committees? In The Atlas of New Librarianship, R. David Lankes offers a guide to this new landscape for practitioners. He describes a new librarianship based not on books and artifacts but on knowledge and learning; and he suggests a new mission for librarians: to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities. The vision for a new librarianship must go beyond finding library-related uses for information technology and the Internet; it must provide a durable foundation for the field. Lankes recasts librarianship and library practice using the fundamental concept that knowledge is created though conversation. New librarians approach their work as facilitators of conversation; they seek to enrich, capture, store, and disseminate the conversations of their communities. To help librarians navigate this new terrain, Lankes offers a map, a visual representation of the field that can guide explorations of it; more than 140 Agreements, statements about librarianship that range from relevant theories to examples of practice; and Threads, arrangements of Agreements to explain key ideas, covering such topics as conceptual foundations and skills and values. Agreement Supplements at the end of the book offer expanded discussions. Although it touches on theory as well as practice, the Atlas is meant to be a tool: textbook, conversation guide, platform for social networking, and call to action."--M.I.T. Press Web page.

The Atlas of New Librarianship

John Collins

Director and Associate Dean R David Lankes, Ed.

Abby S. Kasowitz

A guide to the theoretical aspects of defining digital reference services in the new millennium, and the evolving service and technical aspects of developing, managing, and evaluating them.

Planning, Management, and Evaluation

Digital Reference Service in the New Millennium

Virtual Dave Lankes

This educator-oriented handbook by "Virtual Dave" provides an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand guide to the Internet: what it is; how it works; and how one gets there. The book covers the basics of the Internet, with simple and concise explanations geared toward classroom teachers and school library media specialists. Each chapter contains a resource section of Internet addresses and chapter highlights which are helpful for novice and experienced Internet users alike. The book includes the following chapters: (1) Electronic Networks: A Primer; (2) The Internet Model; (3) E-Mail: The Net's Common Currency; (4) Telnet and FTP: The Internet's Forgotten Heros; (5) Gopher: What if the World Were One Big Menu? (6) The World Wide Web: Do Spiders Really Surf? (7) New Toys and Trends for the Internet; (8) Setting up the Internet for Your School; and (9) Conclusion. A presentation packet for educators to teach others about the Internet comprises the second half of the document and includes all materials ready for reproduction in hard copy or transparency. An annotated bibliography of related documents available in the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database, background information about ERIC, and a glossary are also included. (Contains 13 references.) (SWC)

A Primer and Presentation Packet for Educators

The Bread & Butter of the Internet

Scott Nicholson

Philip Nast

Lynn Westbrook

Joanne Silverstein

Provides information about electronic reference services, presenting an overview of seven conferences about the topic and examining problems and solutions.

From Competencies to Assessment

Virtual Reference Service

Introduction -- PART I: DIAGNOSIS -- Ch.1: Getting to know you -- Ch.2: Sick and tired in Amsterdam -- Ch.3: Super Bowl Sunday -- Ch.4: Dear bringer of doom -- PART II: TREATMENT -- Ch.5: My cancer is worse than yours -- Ch.6: Too much information -- Ch.7: The ROC -- Ch.8: Your side effects will vary -- Ch.9: HemOc -- Ch.10: Dear doctor -- PART III: TRANSPLANT -- Ch.11: Schrodinger's cat -- Ch.12: ICE ICE baby -- Ch.13: PET scans and water -- Ch.14: Harvest -- Ch.15: A new birthday -- Ch.16: Home -- Ch.17: Dear fellow cancer survivor -- Epilogue: A cancer free summer -- About the author. .

The Boring Patient

'The Virtual Reference Desk' is based on the peer-reviewed lead papers from the November 2004 virtual reference conference in Ohio. Divided into sections - management, evaluation and standards, technology, resources, research and policy - the book features chapters written by recognized leaders in the reference information field.

Creating a Reference Future

The Virtual Reference Desk

An essential guide to a librarianship based not on books and artifacts but on knowledge and learning. Libraries have existed for millennia, but today the library field is searching for solid footing in an increasingly fragmented (and increasingly digital) information environment. What is librarianship when it is unmoored from cataloging, books, buildings, and committees? In The Atlas of New Librarianship, R. David Lankes offers a guide to this new landscape for practitioners. He describes a new librarianship based not on books and artifacts but on knowledge and learning; and he suggests a new mission for librarians: to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities. The vision for a new librarianship must go beyond finding library-related uses for information technology and the Internet; it must provide a durable foundation for the field. Lankes recasts librarianship and library practice using the fundamental concept that knowledge is created though conversation. New librarians approach their work as facilitators of conversation; they seek to enrich, capture, store, and disseminate the conversations of their communities. To help librarians navigate this new terrain, Lankes offers a map, a visual representation of the field that can guide explorations of it; more than 140 Agreements, statements about librarianship that range from relevant theories to examples of practice; and Threads, arrangements of Agreements to explain key ideas, covering such topics as conceptual foundations and skills and values. Agreement Supplements at the end of the book offer expanded discussions. Although it touches on theory as well as practice, the Atlas is meant to be a tool: textbook, conversation guide, platform for social networking, and call to action. Copublished with the Association of College & Research Libraries.

Let us start with a simple scenario: a man asks a woman "how high is Mount Everest?" The woman replies "29,029 feet." Nothing could be simpler. Now let us suppose that rather than standing in a room, or sitting on a bus, the man is at his desk and the woman is 300 miles away with the conversation taking place using e-mail. Still simple? Certainly--it happens every day. So why all the bother about digital (virtual, electronic, chat, etc.) reference? If the man is a pilot flying over Mount Everest, the answer matters. If you are a lawyer going to court, the identity of the woman is very important. Also, if you ever want to find the answer again, how that transaction took place matters a lot. Digital reference is a deceptively simple concept on its face: "the incorporation of human expertise into the information system." This lecture seeks to explore the question of how human expertise is incorporated into a variety of information systems, from libraries, to digital libraries, to information retrieval engines, to knowledge bases. What we learn through this endeavor, begun primarily in the library context, is that the models, methods, standards, and experiments in digital reference have wide applicability. We also catch a glimpse of an unfolding future in which ubiquitous computing makes the identification, interaction, and capture of expertise increasingly important. It is a future that is much more complex than we had anticipated. It is a future in which documents and artifacts are less important than the contexts of their creation and use. Table of Contents: Defining Reference in a Digital Age / Conversations / Digital Reference in Practice / Digital Reference an a New Future / Conclusion

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