Education for professional academic librarianship

Education for librarianship: Some persistent issues

As education for librarianship approaches its centenary it is curious to note how many of the issues debated over the course of the last hundred years still remain unresolved today. Some of these are quite fundamental to the whole matter of education for a profession. In its strictly defined sense of formal full-time instruction, in an institution of higher education, specifically in librarians...

The "Multihued Palette" of Academic Librarianship

223 " The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex issues. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth. To Huxley's famous list of those prone to oversimplification given an appropriate platform, I fear we must add the occasional academic adminis...

A Road Map for Civil Engineers towards Bridge Engineering Through Academic Education and Professional Training

It is common in many countries that engineers having an academic degree in Civil Engineering are appointed responsible for different tasks related to Bridge Engineering. However, there are serious questions about whether formal university courses in civil engineering could cover the needs of a bridge engineer to fulfill his or her job successfully. Regarding the recent significant advances in t...

Miles O. Price and Education for Law Librarianship

Communication overload: a phenomenological inquiry into academic reference librarianship

The impetus for this study was personal experience: that of being overwhelmed by communication coming from multiple venues, and repeated attempts to find ‘the magic bullet’ to gather, or filter, communication in order to make it manageable. Personal adaptation of technology is often by choice; the choices can be confusing, but they are a choice. Reference librarians’ jobs depend on effective co...