Educating the profession for the future. Quality assurance in library and information science (LIS) schools : major trends and issues / Anna Maria Tammaro. Intellectual freedom in libraries : then and now / Henry Cohen and Mary Minow -- Focusing on library services and resources. Reference service : from the certainty to uncertainty / James Rettig -- Progress in health sciences librarianship : 1970-2005 / Keith W. Cogdill -- Oral history : prospects and a retrospective / James E. Fogerty -- Library buildings at the threshold of change / William Goodrich Jones -- Tailoring services to different user groups. The burden of being special : adding clarity about communicating to researching and serving users, special, and otherwise / Brenda Dervin, CarrieLynn D. Reinhard and Zack Y. Kerr -- Progress in school library media programs : where have we been? where are we now? and where are we going? / Cheryl Ann McCarthy -- The undergraduate library and its librarians in the large research university : responding to change to remain vital and relevant / Kari Lucas -- Educating the profession for the future. Library professionals for the 21st century academy / Diane L. Barlow and Elizabeth Aversa -- The CLIR fellowship and academic librarianship, or Frodo meets Google / Daphnee Rentfrow -- Quality assurance in library and information science (LIS) schools : major trends and issues / Anna Maria Tammaro.
Summary:
The 30th volume of Advances in Librarianship acknowledges changes in the profession over three and a half decades, while continuing a tradition of identifying new trends and innovations. The contributing authors were invited especially to celebrate the history of the past thirty-six years by reflecting, as appropriate, on advances made in their topic since the first volume of the series was published in 1970. The twelve chapters in this volume can be loosely grouped into four sections reflecting basic themes in librarianship: tracing issues in communication: relevance and freedom of expression; focusing on library services and resources; tailoring services to different user groups; and educating the profession for the future.
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