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Is (Academic) Librarianship Dead?

open access: yesPartnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2009
Since attending the 70 APLA conference in Halifax this June, I have been contemplating the notion that librarianship, specifically academic librarianship, is dying or “in its end game” to quote outgoing APLA president Su Cleyle. My response to this idea is absolutely not.
Jennifer Richard
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Academic Librarianship: A Crisis or an Opportunity? [PDF]

open access: yesPartnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2011
“Academic Librarianship: A Crisis or an Opportunity?” was a one day symposium held at the University of Toronto on November 18, 2011. The symposium provided a forum for stakeholders to consider recent troubling events and developments in the academic ...
Diane Granfield   +2 more
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Book Review: Academic Librarianship

open access: yesPartnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2011
Linwood DeLong
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Open for Library-Faculty Collaboration: A Liaison Librarian Use Case at the University Library of Freie Universität Berlin

open access: yesBibliothek, 2023
This article addresses the concept and practice of liaison librarianship newly introduced in 2019 at the University Library of Freie Universität Berlin.
Hübner Andreas, Wagner Cosima
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Survey Respondents Suggest that Some Academic Library Professionals without a Graduate Degree in Librarianship Have Prior Library Experience and Do Not Plan to Pursue a Library Degree

open access: yesEvidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2020
A Review of: Oliver, A., & Prosser, E. (2018). Academic librarianship without the degree: Examining the characteristics and motivations of academic library professionals. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 44(5), 613-619. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.
Eugenia Opuda
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The art of asking and answering Events, things, and librarianship in the disciplines

open access: yesJournal of New Librarianship, 2020
This essay, which is primarily addressed to academic liaison/subject librarians, considers the degree to which the economically-centered rhetoric of resource production, distribution, and consumption – a language that centers librarianship on the ...
Michael Kicey
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A Survey of Primary School Libraries to Determine the Availability and Adequacy of Services for Universal Basic Education (UBE) in Oyo State, Nigeria

open access: yesEvidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2011
Objective -- As a first step in gathering evidence, this study surveyed school libraries and examined the services those libraries provide in relation to the Universal Basic Education (UBE) program at a primary level.
Belau Olatunde Gbadamosi
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Introducing the Journal of Graduate Librarianship

open access: yesJournal of Graduate Librarianship, 2023
Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Journal of Graduate Librarianship, the first professional journal dedicated solely to graduate librarianship! This issue is the culmination of a two-year effort where we discovered, often the hard way, what goes into
Wendy Doucette, Jill Cirasella
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Articulating Our Very Unfreedom: The Impossibility of Refusal in the Contemporary Academy

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2021
This paper begins and ends with a provocation: I argue that refusal in librarianship is both impossible and necessary. Reviewing examples of crisis narratives which permeate both American and Canadian universities, I take a materialist perspective on the
Lydia Zvyagintseva
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