Six Issues Facing Libraries Today

Critical Perspectives

By (author) John M. Budd

Hardback - £75.00

Publication date:

13 June 2017

Length of book:

196 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781442277373

This book addresses some of the most pressing issues in library and information science. It offers informed insight and perspectives on six essential and timely questions facing the profession:

  • What is information?
  • What is information literacy?
  • What roles do academic libraries play in higher education today?
  • How can we effectively educate librarians?
  • What are the ethical and moral bases of the library and information professions?
  • What is the future of librarianship?

Written by John M. Budd, one of librarianship’s most-respected educators and the author of twelve previous books, and copublished with Beta Phi Mu, the International Honor Society for librarianship, this is sure to become one of profession’s most talked-about books.
Contemporary libraries face myriad persistent challenges, and Budd—a long-standing observer and scholar of librarianship—attempts to inject new perspectives into the ways library and information science (LIS) professionals address such challenges. The book's six chapters center on the nature of information, the evolution of information literacy, the role of libraries in higher education, the education of librarians, moral and ethical issues in the LIS professions, and the future of librarianship itself. Budd examines many complex issues by drawing on literature from a variety of disciplines, fleshing out the gaps that cannot be solely addressed by LIS offerings. He maintains focus on the contemporary aspect of these issues by paring down historical context to essential information and offering suggestions for further readings....

Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students; professionals/practitioners.