Musings, Meanderings, and Monsters, Too Essays on Academic Librarianship

by Raish, Martin H.

• ISBN13: 9780810847675
• ISBN10: 0810847671
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-28
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Summary

What does the future hold for academic libraries and librarians? These nineteen essays offer some interesting observations and opinions about the problems and issues that are changing academic librarianship as we know it.

Author Biography

Martin H. Raish was born and raised in southern California (before the eruption of freeways and strip malls) and eventually earned degrees from schools in four states, including an M.L.S. from Brigham Young University (BYU) and a Ph.D. in art history from the University of New Mexico. In 1988, he landed at Binghamton University in New York, where he served as a reference librarian and bibliographer and as coordinator for library instruction. In 1999, he returned to BYU as chair of the department of library instruction and information literacy. Raish is currently director of the David O. McKay Library at BYU in Idaho

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: Monsters in Our Closets	p. ix
Academic Librarians Offer the Crucial Human Element in Online Scholarship	p. 1
Slipping Sanctuaries	p. 9
Moving Beyond the "Re" Generation: Making Libraries and Librarians Count in the Twenty-first Century	p. 20
Reference Librarians As Wild Animals	p. 31
Place and Space: Libraries and the Cartography of Knowledge	p. 41
Ketchup Has Always Been a Vegetable	p. 51
Creating That Teachable Moment	p. 58
A Bookless Society--Who Says?	p. 65
All We Need Is a Fast Horse: Riding Information Literacy into the Academy	p. 75
Information Literacy As Liberal Education: Academic Libraries, the Teaching Librarian, and Collection Marketing	p. 89
From Library-College to Information Literacy: An Evolving Strategy for Educating Library Users	p. 106
Plexus and Nexus: From Ramelli to Zappa and Beyond	p. 117
From Custodian to Navigator: The Amazing Heroic Journey of the New Information Specialist	p. 124
Giving Away the Keys to the Kingdom	p. 137
Shining Some Light on the Monster under the Bed: A Closer Look at the "Doubling of Knowledge"	p. 145
Libraries As Gardens: Using Analogies to Teach the Research Process	p. 157
On Specialization	p. 166
To (Pre)Serve and Protect	p. 173
Will Time Tame This Tyrant, Too?	p. 182
Index	p. 189
Contributors	p. 191
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