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Product Description: This book presents a retro-progressive proposal for the education of librarians: the removal of library education from the jurisdiction of universities, which in recent decades have become increasingly corporatized, internalizing market-based concepts such as performance metrics and "audit culture" to the extent that, ideologically speaking, they are indistinguishable from corporations...read more

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9781936117048 | Library Juice Pr Llc, December 1, 2009, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: This book presents a retro-progressive proposal for the education of librarians: the removal of library education from the jurisdiction of universities, which in recent decades have become increasingly corporatized, internalizing market-based concepts such as performance metrics and "audit culture" to the extent that, ideologically speaking, they are indistinguishable from corporations.

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'This book provides a history of readers' advisory philosophy and offers a perspective on the evolution of the service. The book analyzes the debate that shaped readers' advisory and discusses how the service has assumed its present form; and follows readers' advisory through its development, when the service was still a subject of debate about its meaning'--Provided by publisher.

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9780786429257 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, January 30, 2007, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: 'This book provides a history of readers' advisory philosophy and offers a perspective on the evolution of the service.

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Product Description: These authors examine the unique social roles of libraries and museums, review historical precedents as well as library-museum partnerships funded in recent years through IMLS grants, and forge an exciting vision of a new library-museum hybrid...read more

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9781591580645 | Libraries Unltd Inc, November 30, 2004, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: These authors examine the unique social roles of libraries and museums, review historical precedents as well as library-museum partnerships funded in recent years through IMLS grants, and forge an exciting vision of a new library-museum hybrid.

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Product Description: Reference librarians are no longer expected to know much about the information they find; they are merely expected to find it. Technological competency rather than knowledge has become the order of the day. In many respects, reference service has become a matter of typing search terms into a library's online catalog or a web search engine and providing the patron with the results of the search...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780786416523 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, December 1, 2003, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Reference librarians are no longer expected to know much about the information they find; they are merely expected to find it.

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Product Description: Many reference librarians have been highly critical about unobtrusive evaluation studies. But can their opposition be justified? Or is it just a way to detract attention from serious shortcomings in reference service? How can government documents reference service, and reference service in general, be improved? Do librarians have enough general and subject-specific knowledge to provide informed and intelligent answers to reference questions? Would any business or non-profit organization be satisfied with the traditional 55 percent efficacy rate in reference service revealed by unobtrusive evaluation studies?Long a controversial topic in the specialized world of reference librarianship, unobtrusive evaluation is nevertheless a useful tool in gauging the degree to which reference librarians are effectively performing their jobs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781567505061 | Praeger Pub Text, September 30, 2000, cover price $131.95

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9781567505078 | Praeger Pub Text, December 1, 2000, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Many reference librarians have been highly critical about unobtrusive evaluation studies.

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