The demise of the library school
Subtitle: personal reflections on professional education in the modern corporate university
By: Richard J. Cox.
Publisher: Library Juice Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Duluth, Minn
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781936117185
Subjects: Library education; Library schools -- Curricula; Archives -- Study and teaching (Higher); Information science -- Study and teaching; Professional education
Description: "A series of meditations on critical themes relating to the education of librarians, archivists, and other information professionals, playing off of other commentators analyzing the nature of higher education and its problems and aims"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the scene; title: Reading, writing, and the old library school; title: Personal interlude : loving books, without apology; title: Spectacle of the corporate university; title: Rethinking the traditional school (and values); title: Archival studies : a case study; title: Looking for our way (reading and writing) in professional schools; title: Teaching in the professional school in the changing university.