Generation Of Librarians Research Articles

Cecile E. Kramer, AHIP, FMLA, 1926–2007

Cecile E. Kramer, AHIP, FMLA, 1926–2007

Preparing Information Professionals for Leadership in the New Age: The 1st Asia Pacific Conference on Library and Information Education and Practice

PurposeA conference report of the first Asia‐Pacific Conference on Library & Information Education and Practice conference hosted by the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Library and Information Science education was the focus and preparing librarians for the twenty‐first century. The purpose is to educate practicing librarians and information scientists about directions in the profession and how to incorporate this message into the practice of librarianship.FindingsDifferent presentations highlighted new approaches and methods to approach new ways of thinking about service and expectations in the library community.Research limitations/implicationsGaining insight into current trends in library education. As library environments experience great change, with more emphasis on technology, it is imperative to train librarians with new competencies.Practical implicationsCombining library education and practice is key to being relevant to developments in library science education and retaining the science and technology as key components in the training of librarians. Originality/valueOf interest to regional librarians as well as librarians worldwide interested in how this region is preparing the next generation of librarians to practice with new skills, technology applications and to meet expectations.

Writing Your First Scholarly Article: A Guide for Budding Authors in Librarianship

This series of questions and answers is designed to help you take the first steps toward the successful production of a scholarly article in librarianship. You may find yourself in a library position that requires writing or you may have just decided that you are ready to share your findings, experiences, and knowledge with the current and future generations of librarians. While following the guidelines listed here will not guarantee that you will be successful, these steps will take you closer to discovering the thrill of seeing your name in print and making a difference in the field.

Shedding the Stereotypes

Summary While it is very difficult to predict exactly what a librarian's job will entail in 50 years, there is no doubt in the author's mind that the profession will be a successful one. Exploring today's societal and technological trends allows one to propose an idea of patterns and expectations typical of the next generation of librarians and the challenges that come in managing this talented, yet demanding, group.

Provocative Thoughts of a New Generation of Librarians

Recruiting "new blood" younger staff with different skills and attitudes will be essential if libraries are to survive, not simply as physical entities, but as facilitators of the changes in scholarly communication as the end user becomes the judge and the jury of access to information

Standing on forgotten shoulders – who was Butler Wood?

The library services we provide today are built on the skill, energy and vision of earlier generations of librarians; yet most of these pioneers remain unknown. Examines the career of Butler Wood, librarian at Bradford for 50 years, 41 of them as chief librarian. In addition to the successful development of a major municipal library, he developed art gallery and museum services; was a founder member and contributor to many literary, historical and cultural organizations; he influenced the development of reference and rural libraries; and he contributed to the growth of the library profession itself. An appreciation of this visionary scholar/ administrator can provide inspiration today.

Comment

IT WAS DIFFICULT to believe the tidings that have only just reached me, the news that Stanley Snaith died in Dorset on December 19 last, a few days after his 73rd birthday. The rising generation of librarians may say ‘Who was Stanley Snaith?’, so all the more reason for this tribute.

A Visit to the Libraries of Metropolitan Toronto

SEVERAL GENERATIONS OF LIBRARIANS throughout the world have become aware of the libraries of Toronto during the course of their early professional studies; many British librarians, indeed, have gained first‐hand knowledge through taking part in the internee scheme of Toronto Public Library. The wealth of the collections of Toronto Central Library and the pioneer work of Boys and Girls House have become legendary in our profession. During a private visit to Canada in July and August 1971 I satisfied a long‐standing ambition by making a pilgrimage to the libraries in Toronto and saw something of the significant developments that have been taking place there recently.

A Search for Principles of Book Selection, 1550-1700

During the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries many of the key issues in book selection which still occupy our attention today were discussed by librarians and other scholars concerned with the rational development of library collections for research or instruction. Each successive generation of librarians, building on the experience of its predecessors, formulated principles of selection and of practice that were widely disseminated through its writings. By the end of this period a body of literature had been developed that has helped shape the growth of scholarly libraries to our own day.

The Development of a Methodology for System Design and Its Role in Library Education

IT IS indeed a pleasure to participate with such distinguished company in this conference, which has a tradition behind it of leadership to the profession. I feel therefore compelled to issue a word of caution regarding what I shall say. It would be all too easy to conclude from my comments that information science (or system design as its most evident component) is to be viewed as the central purpose of library education. I do not regard it so. The tradition in library education is an honorable one, with meaning to this generation of librarians and to the ones to come. Information science may well affect that tradition; it will certainly interact with it, but it will never replace it. Please therefore regard my comments as presenting an addition to library education, not a substitute for it. With that background, let me now consider methodologies, system design, and library education.

Mr. A. L. Hetherington

The name of A. L. Hetherington won't convey much to the present generation of librarians, but to those who were in the profession about the time of the First World War his name will evoke memories. He was the first Secretary to be appointed to the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust at Dunfermline, and in that capacity he made contact over the years with librarians and educationists in most parts of the United Kingdom. The present writer, who became Librarian to the Trustees (nominated for the post by the late Stanley Jast who was then Honorary Secretary of the Library Association), was appointed shortly after Hetherington took office and naturally got to know Hetherington very well in those years of developing library activity. The interest of the Trustees in library affairs was naturally compelling. Almost at once the office found itself enthusiastically engaged in doing its best to implement some of the salient suggestions embodied in the report of Prof. W. G. S. Adams entitled A Report on Library Provision and Policy.

The Library World Volume 28 Issue 9

IT has now been definitely arranged that the Conference of the Library Association will take place in the week beginning September 6th. Leeds has an old‐time reputation for hospitality and civic pride, and there is every reason to believe that from the library point of view also the Conference will be one of the most interesting and productive of recent years. It will appeal strongly to the whole of this generation of librarians from the fact that the President‐elect is Dr. Henry Guppy, the veteran Librarian of the John Rylands Library, who in the old days, when he was editor of The Library Association Record, gave perhaps greater stimulus than any man of his day to the young library worker to educate and equip himself for finer library service. It may be that under its present able editor the Library Association Record is approaching the quality which it possessed under Dr. Guppy. We doubt whether it has surpassed or can surpass that quality. It is hoped, we understand, that the main subjects for discussion will be those which arose out of Principal Grant Robertson's Inaugural Address at Birmingham last year. Libraries and citizenship is a subject with many phases and possibilities. We hope that the Council will give us the opportunity to explore many of its avenues.