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Main Author: Freedman, Jenna
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 2009
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Online Access:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ859398
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contents Veterans Speak Out Freedman, Jenna Academic Libraries Librarians Interviews Research Libraries Reference Services Library Science There's a lot of focus on the "Next Gen" librarians out there bringing a youth perspective that's supposed to shake things up and introducing new ideas and practices into a profession that sometimes moves forward at a glacial pace. But the ideas of the new generation do not invalidate the work done by those who came before. In fact, change in libraries tends to be a lot more evolutionary than revolutionary. There's just no substitute for experience--logging the years to see it all, gaining knowledge through surviving mistakes--and the confidence experience gives. In this article, the author interviews librarians who have a minimum of 20 years as a librarian, with between five and 35 of those years served in an academic library. They are: (1) Marylaine Block; (2) Kate Corby; (3) Sha Fagan; (4) Barbara Fister; (5) Kathleen de la Pena McCook; (6) Patricia Glass Schuman; (7) Theresa Tobin; and (8) Bob Wolven. In this interview, the author asks these librarians a number of questions including the same ones posed by Scott Carlson in his article "Young Librarians, Talkin' 'Bout Their Generation," in "The Chronicle of Higher Education" (10/19/07).
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spellingShingle Veterans Speak Out
Freedman, Jenna
Academic Libraries
Librarians
Interviews
Research Libraries
Reference Services
Library Science
Veterans Speak Out Freedman, Jenna Academic Libraries Librarians Interviews Research Libraries Reference Services Library Science There's a lot of focus on the "Next Gen" librarians out there bringing a youth perspective that's supposed to shake things up and introducing new ideas and practices into a profession that sometimes moves forward at a glacial pace. But the ideas of the new generation do not invalidate the work done by those who came before. In fact, change in libraries tends to be a lot more evolutionary than revolutionary. There's just no substitute for experience--logging the years to see it all, gaining knowledge through surviving mistakes--and the confidence experience gives. In this article, the author interviews librarians who have a minimum of 20 years as a librarian, with between five and 35 of those years served in an academic library. They are: (1) Marylaine Block; (2) Kate Corby; (3) Sha Fagan; (4) Barbara Fister; (5) Kathleen de la Pena McCook; (6) Patricia Glass Schuman; (7) Theresa Tobin; and (8) Bob Wolven. In this interview, the author asks these librarians a number of questions including the same ones posed by Scott Carlson in his article "Young Librarians, Talkin' 'Bout Their Generation," in "The Chronicle of Higher Education" (10/19/07).
title Veterans Speak Out
topic Academic Libraries
Librarians
Interviews
Research Libraries
Reference Services
Library Science
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ859398