Librarians are sometimes thought to be classic passive resources-seen and not
heard peacefully waiting for their clientele to approach. Incentive is supposed
to come from users while librarians wait to serve. Therefore much librarianship
seems devoted to preparing to satisfy people who may show up on their own.
Whatever degree of validity this view has for most libraries, it is unacceptable
for environmental libraries and for environmental collections in general libraries.
These libraries and collections cannot be wallflowers. The passive view
makes too little of them. The rest of the papers for this conference deal with
the passive functions of environmental libraries; I will deal with some of the
important active functions.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Allerton Park Institute (18th : 1972)
ISSN
0536-4604
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1592
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