University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Valuing professionalism: Discourse as professional practice

Drabinski, Emily

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Title
Valuing professionalism: Discourse as professional practice
Author(s)
Drabinski, Emily
Issue Date
2016
Keyword(s)
  • Librarianship--Core Values
  • Librarianship--Theory and Practice
  • Library Profession
Abstract
In the American Library Association’s “Core Values of Librarianship” (2004), Professionalism is listed as one of the Core Values, but its meaning is not settled. Framed alternately as an incomplete achievement of professional traits or a process of identity creation, the professional status of librarianship has been subject to debate since the field began to take its contemporary form in 1876. Understanding Professionalism as a discursive response to an urgent present can enable the field to locate the value of that status outside of the workplace hierarchies that professionalization inevitably produces.
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/2142/89852
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2016.0005
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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.