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Introduction: Valuing librarianship: Core values in theory and practice

Berg, Selinda A.; Jacobs, Heidi L.M.

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Title
Introduction: Valuing librarianship: Core values in theory and practice
Author(s)
  • Berg, Selinda A.
  • Jacobs, Heidi L.M.
Issue Date
2016
Keyword(s)
  • Librarianship--Core Values
  • Librarianship--Theory and Practice
  • Library Profession
Abstract
In 2011 we published an article in Library Trends where we concluded, “It is worth considering why the ALA Core Values seem to have lost their traction or relevance in the daily work librarians perform. There may be political, institutional, professional, or organizational reasons why this has happened and these factors would be well worth exploring” (Jacobs & Berg, 2011, p. 391). In 2014, as the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the American Library Association’s (ALA) “Core Values of Librarianship” came and went without any scholarly or professional attention, we found we were still considering these questions and issued a call to librarians and LIS faculty to explore these questions along with us. As Maura Seale eloquently asserts in her contribution to this special issue, “ALA’s Core ‘Core Values of Librarianship’ (2004) wants to tell a story” (p. 596). This special issue, “Valuing Librarianship: Core Values in Theory and Practice,” is an attempt to tell some of those stories. The “Core Values of Librarianship”
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/89850
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2016.0002
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Copyright (2016) Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 64 (3) Winter 2016: Valuing Librarianship: Core Values in Theory and Practice PRIMARY
Library Trends 64 (3) Winter 2016: Valuing Librarianship: Core Values in Theory and Practice edited by Selinda A. Berg and Heidi LM Jacobs, University of Windsor.