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| Foreword | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Pt. 1 | Librarians and Their Role as Defined by Themselves and by Others | |
| The Role of Reference Service in the Mission of the Academic Library | 11 | |
| Personal Information Needs in a Democratic Society | 23 | |
| Librarians and the FBI | 29 | |
| "Send These, the Homeless, Tempest-Tost to Me" | 34 | |
| Pseudo-Libraries and Semi-Teachers | 39 | |
| Managers and Leaders: Are There More Differences Than Similarities? | 51 | |
| Getting into This Mess Wasn't Easy! It Took a Lot of Effort on Our Part | 56 | |
| Technology - A Means to an End Only If You Can Agree on the End | 67 | |
| Professional Librarians and Professionals in Libraries | 74 | |
| Librarians vs. Computer Professionals | 78 | |
| Diversity Is Not Fragmentation: Building a Strong Whole from Many Parts | 82 | |
| Off-Campus Education and Library Service - Experiences and Observations | 90 | |
| Meetings, Bloody Meetings | 99 | |
| The Reference Librarian as Information Intermediary: The Correct Approach Is the One That Today's Client Needs Today | 104 | |
| The Double-Edged Sword of Library Volunteerism | 115 | |
| Scholarly Publication, Academic Libraries, and the Assumption That These Processes Are Really Under Management Control | 119 | |
| Information Technology, Users, and Intermediaries in the 21st Century: Some Observations and Predictions | 130 | |
| Bailing Out the Pacific Ocean with a Teaspoon | 140 | |
| Library Research and Government Funding - A Less Than Ardent Romance | 145 | |
| Pt. 2 | Librarians, Their Self-Image, and the Perceptions That Define Their Preparation | |
| Information Access and the Changing Library School Curriculum | 157 | |
| Evaluating Personnel | 163 | |
| Oh, Why (and Oh, What) Do We Classify? | 172 | |
| Special Library Professionalism and Library Education | 177 | |
| School Librarians and the Rest of Us | 187 | |
| The Tyranny of the "Team" | 192 | |
| The "Quiet Revolution": A Profession at the Crossroads | 197 | |
| Librarian Burnout | 206 | |
| The Accredited Library Education Program as Preparation for Professional Library Work | 211 | |
| A Requiem for the Mother School of Us All | 237 | |
| The Conflict Between Professional and Organizational Loyalty | 242 | |
| Professional Ethics in Library and Information Science | 247 | |
| The Library Implications of Individual and Team Empowerment | 258 | |
| Is There a Correlation Between Library Education Programs and Athletic Success? | 263 | |
| Why Do "They" Close Library Schools? | 268 | |
| The Perilous Allure of Moral Imperativism | 273 | |
| The Freedom to Write a Research Paper Without Being Mugged | 278 | |
| Bibliographic Instruction and the Library School Curriculum | 282 | |
| Your Half of the Boat Is Sinking | 290 | |
| Library and Library School Management: Strangers in Our Midst | 295 | |
| Librarians and Information Specialists on the Information Superhighway | 299 | |
| Pt. 3 | Librarians in the Cruel World of Politics and Money | |
| The Value-Added Process of Librarianship | 317 | |
| Cheapness Through "Fairness": The Unholy Conspiracy | 322 | |
| Librarians and Marketing | 327 | |
| The 26-Mile, 380-Yard Marathon | 332 | |
| Hiding the Cost of Information | 337 | |
| Librarians, Journal Publishers and Scholarly Information: Whose Leaky Boat Is Sinking? | 347 | |
| The Tragic Cost of Being "Reasonable" | 354 | |
| Playing Shell Games Without Any Peas | 359 | |
| Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water | 364 | |
| Assessing the White House Conference: Two Chances to Miss the Brass Ring | 369 | |
| Coalition-Building and the Image of Power | 374 | |
| Fee vs. Free: A Catchy But Not Very Meaningful Option | 379 | |
| Electronic Resource Sharing: It May Seem Obvious, But It's Not as Simple as It Looks | 384 | |
| The Leader as Decision Maker: When Centralized Decisions Become Imperative | 393 | |
| Would You Like to Rank Order the Importance of Your Children? | 402 | |
| Is There More Yellow Brick Road Beyond This Poppy Field? | 407 | |
| Our Retreat to Moscow, and Beyond | 412 | |
| Index | 417 | |
| About the Author | 422 |
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reviewed At the Crossroads: Librarians on the Information Superhighway on October 11, 2014
At the Crossroads: Librarians on the Information Superhighway
It was a textbook and I will definitely be counting it toward my Read Harder Reading Challenge.
My favorite highlights include:
• "Managers are usually very busy people"
• "As a result of this heavy workload, [managers] often feel stress"
• and the "Preferred pay, benefits and rewards" for the "general managerial competence" is that "you measure success by income level and expect to be highly paid."
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