In the Trenches: A Comparison of Public Children’s Librarianship and School Librarianship

Leadership in Librarianship

Two SURVEYS WERE ADMINISTERED to library professionals holding titular headships in order to develop a list of perceived library leaders. This list was used to learn the locus (subfield) of leadership and the degree of fieldwide integration as evidenced by the extent of shared perceptions by respondents. Results revealed that leaders tend to be associated most strongly with a category labeled “...

Librarianship in Israel

Snunith Shoham is the Chair of the Department of Information Science at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. She received her Ph.D from the School of Information Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA. Dr Shoham has published many professional articles and three books, the newest one, Library Classification and Browsing: The Conjunction of Books and Readers, is scheduled to be published dur...

Dismantling the Public Sphere: Situating and Sustaining Librarianship in the Age of the New Public Philosophy

Innovative Partnerships: Exploring School Librarianship through a Global Lens

Institutional ethnography uncovers how institutional factors shape practice in sometimes unrecognized ways. This IE study on Brazilian school librarianship, conducted in the summer of 2013 in Florianópolis, SC, Brazil, uncovers similar challenges experienced by school library professionals the world over, as well as unique approaches informed by Brazilian culture.

Public Librarianship as a Career: Challenges and Prospects

Over twenty-five years of research has shown that in spite of low salaries, few opportunities for advancement, and challenging work environments, most public librarians are satisfied overall with their jobs and careers, primarily because of the intrinsic rewards of the profession. In this article we present results from the Workforce Issues in Library and Information Science 1 (WILIS 1) project...