Reveals how practitioners, consultants, and faculty can derive theories from actual experience and use such theories in solving real world problems. Bill Crowley explores why theory, in particular theory developed by university and college faculty, is too little used in the off-campus world. The volume examines the importance of solving the theory irrelevance problem, and drawing on a broad spectrum of research and theoretical insights, it provides suggestions for overcoming the not-so-hidden secret of the academic world - why theory with little or no perceived relevance to off-campus...
Reveals how practitioners, consultants, and faculty can derive theories from actual experience and use such theories in solving real world problems. B...
Can professional librarianship exist, let alone thrive, in the 21st century? Does accreditation protect the profession, or reduce it to a minor component of information science? The prognosis is not good, claims cultural pragmatist Bill Crowley, with worse to follow unless library studies and information studies are viewed as separate cognate areas. While an information-centric definition may be appropriate for corporate information specialists, he notes that academic, public, and school librarians are already suffering the effects of devaluation. The remedy is to embrace a concept called...
Can professional librarianship exist, let alone thrive, in the 21st century? Does accreditation protect the profession, or reduce it to a minor com...
Out of the Blue is a collection of stories for the avid diver, those who have contemplated taking up diving, or the person who simply wants to know more about how God communicates with us. Backed by Scripture and written from a scuba diver's perspective, Out of the Blue emphasizes the love, grace, mercy, and hope offered to each of us by a loving and compassionate Father.
Out of the Blue is a collection of stories for the avid diver, those who have contemplated taking up diving, or the person who simply wants to know mo...
There is no longer any way to deny or to escape the responsibility of marketing services and being an advocate for one's profession. Practitioners also need effective arguments and approaches for combating library and information deprofessionalization. This book offers the antidote for ineptitude in the fight to preserve professionalism in all major library and information environments.
Composed of 14 chapters written by contemporary practitioners and practitioners-turned-theorists, "Defending Professionalism: A Resource for Librarians, Information Specialists, Knowledge Managers, and...
There is no longer any way to deny or to escape the responsibility of marketing services and being an advocate for one's profession. Practitioners ...
