Although emotional labor—defined as the process(es) by which a worker manages their feelings in order to produce desired response customer—has been studied various fields and specific domains of librarianship, this topic has yet be examined school librarianship. In exploratory article, I perform close reading librarian job postings surface expectations labor explicate connections feminized hist...

permeates and inspires this collection of essays addressing the diverse and multifarious concerns of the black librarian in America. This edition, which follows two earlier versions edited by Josey in 1970 and 1994, begins with a dedication to Josey, a selected bibliography of his works, and a tribute to him by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA). Indeed, Josey influenc...

permeates and inspires this collection of essays addressing the diverse and multifarious concerns of the black librarian in America. This edition, which follows two earlier versions edited by Josey in 1970 and 1994, begins with a dedication to Josey, a selected bibliography of his works, and a tribute to him by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA). Indeed, Josey influenc...

This issue of Education for Information is a ‘special’ one to celebrate 40 years of library and information science education in Aberystwyth, Wales. The setting up of the College of Librarianship Wales (CLW) in 1964 was, for many people, the realisation of a dream. The initial ideas of a “school for library training” can be traced back as far as 1917. However, it was the appearance of two repor...

A career in librarianship may start a library science master’s program, but the path to and/or between opportunities builds and shifts with time. This commentary discusses paths followed by two librarians who each attended same program are currently both health at institution. While these similarities exist, unique journeys have helped shape their approaches current jobs, roles within careers, ...

This paper aims to identify factors that contribute to the successful initiation of international collaborative projects that are intended to support the development of education for librarianship and information sciences. The paper, first, discusses the widespread failure to analyse the Critical Success Factors in international collaborative projects. It proposes case study methodology to iden...