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What is librarianship when it is unmoored from cataloging, books, buildings, and committees? In The Atlas of New Librarianship, R. David Lankes offers a guide to this new landscape for practitioners. He describes a new librarianship based not on books and artifacts but on knowledge and learning; and he suggests a new mission for librarians: to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities. The vision for a new librarianship must go beyond finding library-related uses for information technology and the Internet; it must provide a durable foundation for the field. Lankes recasts librarianship and library practice using the fundamental concept that knowledge is created though conversation. New librarians approach their work as facilitators of conversation; they seek to enrich, capture, store, and disseminate the conversations of their communities. To help librarians navigate this new terrain, Lankes offers a map, a visual representation of the field that can guide explorations of it; more than 140 Agreements, statements about librarianship that range from relevant theories to examples of practice; and Threads, arrangements of Agreements to explain key ideas, covering such topics as conceptual foundations and skills and values.

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Book category Books in English Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects Library & information sciences

• Full title: Atlas of New Librarianship
• Author: R. David Lankes
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 424
• EAN: 9780262529921
• ISBN: 9780262529921
• ID: 01006041
• Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
• Weight: 1694 g
• Dimensions: 256 × 255 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. September 2016

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