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An essential guide to a librarianship based not on books and artifacts but on knowledge and learning.

The Atlas of New Librarianship

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    424 pages

  • Release Date

    2 September 2016

Summary

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 ne…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262529921
ISBN-10:0262529920
Author:R. David Lankes
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:424
Release Date:2 September 2016
Weight:1.69kg
Dimensions:254mm x 254mm x 24mm
Series:The MIT Press
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[T]he text covers such a vast array of pertinent subjects that almost any reader…may find a few topics of personal interest.

[T]he text covers such a vast array of pertinent subjects that almost any reader…may find a few topics of personal interest.

—The Futurist

Our profession’s Finnegans Wake.

—Publishers Weekly

About The Author

R. David Lankes

R. David Lankes is Professor and Dean’s Scholar for New Librarianship in Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies and received the 2016 American Library Association Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship.

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