Part 1 Traditional Mediation: The Librarian as Mediator The Reference Librarian as Information In... more Part 1 Traditional Mediation: The Librarian as Mediator The Reference Librarian as Information Intermediary Back to Basics Mediation in Reference Service To Extend Patron Success. Part 2 Mediation and the Electronic World: Books and Screens, Readers and Reference Electronic Reference Services Response to Swan and Evans. Part 3 Specialized Mediation: Information and Research Support Services Paraprofessionals at the Reference Desk Breaking Through Unequal But Appropriate Service Mediation and Schemata Theory in Meaningful Learning The Dialogue Between Composition Teachers and Reference Librarians. Part 4 Mediation and Accuracy: The Reference Librarian as Mediator. Part 5 The Economy and Its Influence: Mediation in a Shrinking Information Economy. Part 6 The Mediator as Guardian: Academic Librarians and Mediation in Controversial Scholarly Communication.
Let's be honest-traditional academic reference services, at least in publicly funded institutions... more Let's be honest-traditional academic reference services, at least in publicly funded institutions of higher education, are dead. If the politics of reductionism, of cost efficiency, don't pull the plug on a lingering death, then the dislocation brought by the rapidly evolving digital world will. The transformation of libraries from print and place to bytes and space requires new definitions (new definitions that we are all struggling to develop, but which may not be possible by our generation-we are too rooted, cling too tenaciously, to our traditions to articulate a viable future). Most of us never anticipated that we might become, like so many other professions that arose at the end of the 19th century, obsolete.
Slide 3 Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s images of the future were tightly woven into the cultur... more Slide 3 Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s images of the future were tightly woven into the cultural, social, political, and economic fabric of the time. We were watching Hanna-Barbera's Jetson's on television and reading Arthur Radebaugh's "comic" strip Closer Than We Think in the newspaper. Of the two, the comic strip was the more influential; it helped shape expectations of what the future could be-from "push-button education" to … (Image: Novak, Matt (2012) "Technicolor visions of the future," The Paleofuturist,
Let's be honest--traditional academic reference services, at least in publicly funded institution... more Let's be honest--traditional academic reference services, at least in publicly funded institutions of higher education, are dead. If the politics of reductionism, of cost efficiency, don't pull the plug on a lingering death, then the dislocation brought by the rapidly evolving digital world will. The transformation of libraries from print and place to bytes and space requires new definitions (new definitions that we are all struggling to develop, but which may not be possible by our generation--we are too rooted, cling too tenaciously, to our traditions to articulate a viable future). Most of us never anticipated that we might become, like so many other professions that arose at the end of the 19th century, obsolete.
Part 1 Traditional Mediation: The Librarian as Mediator The Reference Librarian as Information In... more Part 1 Traditional Mediation: The Librarian as Mediator The Reference Librarian as Information Intermediary Back to Basics Mediation in Reference Service To Extend Patron Success. Part 2 Mediation and the Electronic World: Books and Screens, Readers and Reference Electronic Reference Services Response to Swan and Evans. Part 3 Specialized Mediation: Information and Research Support Services Paraprofessionals at the Reference Desk Breaking Through Unequal But Appropriate Service Mediation and Schemata Theory in Meaningful Learning The Dialogue Between Composition Teachers and Reference Librarians. Part 4 Mediation and Accuracy: The Reference Librarian as Mediator. Part 5 The Economy and Its Influence: Mediation in a Shrinking Information Economy. Part 6 The Mediator as Guardian: Academic Librarians and Mediation in Controversial Scholarly Communication.
Let's be honest-traditional academic reference services, at least in publicly funded institutions... more Let's be honest-traditional academic reference services, at least in publicly funded institutions of higher education, are dead. If the politics of reductionism, of cost efficiency, don't pull the plug on a lingering death, then the dislocation brought by the rapidly evolving digital world will. The transformation of libraries from print and place to bytes and space requires new definitions (new definitions that we are all struggling to develop, but which may not be possible by our generation-we are too rooted, cling too tenaciously, to our traditions to articulate a viable future). Most of us never anticipated that we might become, like so many other professions that arose at the end of the 19th century, obsolete.
Slide 3 Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s images of the future were tightly woven into the cultur... more Slide 3 Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s images of the future were tightly woven into the cultural, social, political, and economic fabric of the time. We were watching Hanna-Barbera's Jetson's on television and reading Arthur Radebaugh's "comic" strip Closer Than We Think in the newspaper. Of the two, the comic strip was the more influential; it helped shape expectations of what the future could be-from "push-button education" to … (Image: Novak, Matt (2012) "Technicolor visions of the future," The Paleofuturist,
Let's be honest--traditional academic reference services, at least in publicly funded institution... more Let's be honest--traditional academic reference services, at least in publicly funded institutions of higher education, are dead. If the politics of reductionism, of cost efficiency, don't pull the plug on a lingering death, then the dislocation brought by the rapidly evolving digital world will. The transformation of libraries from print and place to bytes and space requires new definitions (new definitions that we are all struggling to develop, but which may not be possible by our generation--we are too rooted, cling too tenaciously, to our traditions to articulate a viable future). Most of us never anticipated that we might become, like so many other professions that arose at the end of the 19th century, obsolete.
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