Perspectives, insights & priorities
Subtitle: 17 leaders speak freely of librarianship
By: edited by Norman Horrocks ; with a foreword by Ed Kurdyla.
Contributors: Horrocks, Norman.; Kurdyla, Ed.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
Subjects: Library science.; Library education.; Information science.
Other titles: Perspectives, insights and priorities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From oral tradition to electronic: accessing and disseminating information / Ismail Abdullahi; title: The library professional / Camila Alire; title: Election 2004: the library fails again / John N. Berry III; title: Reflections on librarianship: values, ethics, and practice / Toni Carbo; title: Serving young adults in libraries: a professional life's work / Mary K. Chelton; title: Libraries: the best public value / Ginnie Cooper; title: A virtuous profession / Leigh S. Estabrook; title: Librarians: our reach is global and our touch is local / Barbara J. Ford; title: Library values in a changing world / Michael Gorman; title: Librarianship: intersecting perspectives for the academy and from the field / Ken Haycock; title: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss: a personal view of librarianship / Patrick Jones; title: The fog of my career: some reflections and lessons learned / Gillian McCombs; title: Social justice as a context for a career in librarianship / Kathleen de la Peña McCook; title: Philosophy begins in wonder and ends in performance / James G. Neal; title: Reflections on a passion / Lotsee Patterson; title: Why do libraries matter in the 21st century? / Molly Raphael; title: The more things change, the more things remain the same / Ann K. Symons.