Why would librarians and LIS educators pay attention to a journalism textbook? Because the digital shift is affecting journalists and librarians in many of the same ways. And because we haven’t seen a textbook like this before.
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It’s a good day to be a librarian
People with library and information science degrees are putting their skills to work in all kinds of interesting places. But the places may not be libraries, and the job titles may not say “librarian.”
Building community assets
The value of a library lies in its ability to develop community assets, says library educator Ken Haycock. And the future of libraries depends on our ability to share that vision with community leaders.
Designing a new kind of library education
Students at the new Dutch LibrarySchool don’t learn to develop and catalog collections. They learn to reinvent public libraries.
Thoughts about libraries — what they are, what they could be, and the world of things that influence them.