Lalithabai, K K. . Librarianship: A Challenging Profession., 1996 In: College Library Development: Studies on Joy Committee Report. New Delhi, Ess Ess Publications, pp. 1-6. [Book chapter]
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Defines librarianship as the art and science of managing recorded knowledge. Observes that in earlier days when the recorded sources of information were limited in number, scholars could be the users as well as managers of libraries. But today’s libraries with torrents of information sources and users on either side makes management a truly challenging task requiring highly specialized knowledge and training in the sophisticated techniques of information handling. Views that in information communication the role of librarian is that of a filter interposed between the users and information sources, both presenting problems characteristic of their changing nature and increasing complexities. Opines that librarianship is a challenging job if the nature of the work and its value is properly understood.
| Item type: | Book chapter |
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| Keywords: | Librarian Librarianship Profession |
| Subjects: | A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. F. Management. B. Information use and sociology of information C. Users, literacy and reading. |
| Depositing user: | R. Raman Nair |
| Date deposited: | 29 Aug 2006 |
| Last modified: | 02 Oct 2014 12:04 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10760/8052 |
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