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Principlism and the Ethics of Librarianship

L Wilkinson - The Reference Librarian, 2014

... equitable access to information is specified to a rule that a librarian must abet suicide ... Candidate
principles for librarianship have not been determined and specific examples of principlism at
the reference desk are unavailable, so the means by which librarians should balance ...

[HTML] Organizing, Contextualizing, and Storing Legacy Research Data: A Case Study of Data Management for Librarians

B Marshall, K O'Bryan, N Qin, R Vernon - … in Science and Technology Librarianship, 2013

... These case studies would provide even more help for the librarian with data management
responsibilities, a role that will ... training in the library school curriculum, defining which skills are
the most important for librarians with data ... Journal Of Web Librarianship, 6(4), 274-287. ...

[PDF] Visible Minority Librarians of Canada at Ontario Library Association Super Conference, 2013

M Kumaran - Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and …, 2013

... Maha Kumaran Liaison Librarian University of Saskatchewan maha.kumaran@usask.ca ... When
deciding to enter the profession, potential candidates should chat with librarians in public ... As noted
by ALA's “Core Competences of Librarianship”, librarians should also have good ...

The Mortenson Center Model: Twenty Years of Successful Professional Development

B Ford, S Schnuer - 2013

... Abstract: After 20 years of operation the Mortenson Center has developed a very successful
professional development model for librarians around the world. The poster will highlight the
components of the model. First presented at IFLA 2013 in Singapore. Issue Date: 2013. ...

[PDF] Performance evaluation and social cultural contribution of public libraries in south region Ahmednagar district (MS)

RP Ghule - 2013

... variety forms, for their studies and research activities. The role of pub library librarian is change ...
Page 11. Public library librarianship is a noble and exalted profession. ... motto. Public library
librarians are the persons who have to be vigilant and conscientious to keep ...

[PDF] Book Review: Information Literacy Beyond Library 2.0

S Shujah - Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and …, 2013

... There are differing perspectives among librarians, faculty, students and patrons ... The librarian
wants to teach the students about search tools; academics want students to learn about
referencing ... For someone in the profession, Part II, Case Studies is the section of the book that ...

Matching the practical implementation of education with medical profession values

S Cottrell, N Ferrari - Medical Education, 2014

... Commentaries. Matching the practical implementation of education with medical profession values.
Scott Cottrell * ,; Norman Ferrari. ... How to Cite. Cottrell, S. and Ferrari, N. (2014), Matching the
practical implementation of education with medical profession values. ...

Open source journals of library and information science: a bibliometric study

SK Satpathy, RK Maharana, AK Das - Collection Building, 2013

... Anwar, MA, Saeed, H. (1999), "Pakistani librarians as authors: a bibliometric study of ... Chinese
:ibrarianship: An International Electronic Journal (2006-2010)”, Chinese Librarianship: An
International ... He has professional experience as Librarian and Senior Librarian for more than ...

The professional oath: pledge of allegiance or reflective practice?

E Gaufberg, M Batalden - Medical Education, 2014

... Commentaries. The professional oath: pledge of allegiance or reflective practice? Elizabeth
Gaufberg * ,; Maren Batalden. ... How to Cite. Gaufberg, E. and Batalden, M. (2014), The professional
oath: pledge of allegiance or reflective practice?. Medical Education, 48: 9–11. ...

A comprehensive systematic review on the experience of lateral/horizontal violence in the profession of nursing

L Rittenmeyer, D Huffman, LJ Hopp, M Block - The JBI Database of Systematic …, 2013

... A comprehensive systematic review on the experience of lateral/horizontal violence in the
profession of nursing. ... The qualitative component considered research on the experience
of lateral/horizontal violence (LV/HV) in the profession of nursing. ...

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1.    Has Gender Equity Improved?: An Examination of the Challenges Faced by Professional Women in Law and Healthcare

2.    M Skiba, DP Paul - International Journal of Social Ecology and …, 2013

3.    This paper looks at contemporary developments and some of the social and political phenomena
that have affected the status of the gap in compensation between.

4.    … on health in old age. Neil Beagrie is a director of Charles Beagrie Ltd., an independent man-agement consultancy company specializing in the digital archive, library

5.    CL Borgman - … (Charleston Insights in Library, Information, and …, 2014

6.    ... She received a BA from the University of Michigan and an MS in library and information science
from Simmons College. ... He has an MS in environmental science (West- ern Washington University)
and an MSI in library and information services (University of Michigan). ...

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8.    Research Data Management: Practical Strategies for Information Professionals (Charleston Insights in Library, Information, and Archival Sciences)

9.    JM Ray - 2014

10.                    ... for the cluster of professionals coalescing to support data-intensive science, also known as
e-science or cyberinfrastructure. ... Research Data Management Practical Strategies for Information
Professionals Edited by Joyce M. Ray Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and ...

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12.                    What makes a good title?

13.                    MJ Grant - Health Information & Libraries Journal, 2013

14.                    ... 4 Hartley, J. Planning that title: practices and preferences for titles with colons in academic
articles. Library & Information Science Research 2007, 29, 553–568. ...

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16.                    Group‐based trajectory modeling (GBTM) of citations in scholarly literature: Dynamic qualities of “transient” and “sticky knowledge claims”

17.                    SE Baumgartner, L Leydesdorff - … of the American Society for Information Science and …, 2013

18.                    ... JASIS is a leading journal in library and information science and provides us with familiar ground
so that we can interpret aggregated patterns in terms of the underlying articles. The routine
is explicated using JASIS as our lead example for the explanation. ...

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20.                    Biocompatibility, biodistribution and efficacy of magnetic nanohydrogels in inhibiting growth of tumors in experimental mice models

21.                    MK Jaiswal, M Gogoi, HD Sarma, R Banerjee… - Biomater. Sci., 2013

22.                    ... Journal cover: Biomaterials Science. Biomaterials Science. Biomaterials Science
is an international, high impact journal bringing together the molecular and mesoscopic
interactions of biomaterials and their potential applications. ...

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24.                    A collaborative conference report: One health: Information in an interdependent world

25.                    S Lewis, H Todd, R Schafer, G Powell - HLA News, 2013

26.                    ... first, be right, be credible'. Joanne Gard Marshall, alumni distinguished professor,
School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, gave the Janet Doe Lecture. (Janet Doe was arguably the ...

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28.                    [PDF] International Forum" Developments in Publishing and their Implications for Library Resource Building"

29.                    B Gu - 2013

30.                    ... Development and Sharing Committee of LSC, Executive Director of the Shanghai Society for
Library Science, Vice-Chair of the Shanghai Academic Library and Information Work Steering
Committee 2013/11/7 第二分会场：出版物的发展与图书馆资源建设的对策 Page 10. ...

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32.                    Combating plagiarism: the role of the health librarian

33.                    H Spring, R Adams - Health Information & Libraries Journal, 2013

34.                    ... Library Review 2012, 61, 68–91. CrossRef. 9 Salisbury, F. & Sheridan, L. Mapping the
journey: developing an information literacy strategy as part of curriculum reform. Journal
of Librarianship & Information Science 2011, 43, 185–193. ...

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36.                    How to Apply the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) Properly to Parallel Geospatial Raster I/O?

37.                    CZ Qin, LJ Zhan, A Zhu - Transactions in GIS, 2013

38.                    ... Guan Q and Clarke KC 2010 A general-purpose parallel raster processing
programming library test application using a geographic cellular automata model.
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Are Librarians in search of a model which recognises them as professioanals and a profession ? ........... a review of a classic paper on Librarianship Profession . Rajashekhar Devarai

Are Librarians in search of a model which recognises them as professioanals and a profession : a review of a classic paper by Hanks and Schmidt[1]

Rajashekhar  Devarai[2]

                                                                                                                                                November 15, 2013

Many Librarians land up as Librarians for various reasons.  Most of the times it it would not have been their first choice to become a Librarian. Let me narrate an anecdote.  Right since his intermediate education Shiva had developed a special liking for Sociology.  He completed his BA with Sociology as a Major Subject.  His love Sociology and other social sciences mean while had doubled up.  Surprisingly and incidentally his father he felt was unable to support his higher education.  Things moved in such a fashion that he happened to  complete his BLIS, and a  PG in Sociology.  Spent one year in learning Urban and Regional Planning.  He could not move any further in Urban and Regional Planning due to unbearable expenses.  He thought job as Librarian was more handy, remunerative, feasible, easier and possible than that of becominga Teacher in Sociology  or becoming a Planner.  May be entering into the job of teaching Sociology needed more patience and also, a coping up with less salary and so on.  And there it was, he landed up as a Librarian in a School .... and career as Librarian got initiated..... A Central Government Job, structured, regular and what not.  He was still not sure whether that was his dream job, or a cream career. His LIS Education and initiaal experience as a school librarian .... made him realise that the job of librarian not that fascinating.  A steady and higher salary compared to that of a beginner in Teching Sociology made him continue as a Librarian.  Librarianship was an easy option?  He tried to be happy otherwise to read the Literature of
Sociology and Psychology for his quest in Reading and Scholarship.  This is a typical example of an individual who emerged and worked long as a Librarian. 

There could be many aspirants of being an engineer, Teacher, Doctor etc., but landed as a Librarian.   Why Shiva failed to find a Science in Library and Informatuion Science, Why he did not like what he was doing as a Librarian., Why every Librarian oround him seemed to be low self esteeme3d,  why he continued to think that he is only a facilitator, why he did not suggest his children to opt for Librarianship.  Inspite of scholarship and publications why he seemed to be struggingl to convince his colleagues and Non Librarian bosses that he too had a Science and Art behind his practice?  Why he continued to wonder on people liking books and libraries but not librarians who spend their life time in developing them?

And now let me come to the topic in hand i.e. REVIEW OF THE SO CALLED CLASSIC by Hanks and Schmidt who were alll out  to find out  / pursue a Research / Theoretical model which makes Librarians feel secure.  Why the authors after being so critical about ‘professional model’ end their paper abruptly and without answering the very question of Librarianship being or not being a full fledged profession?  Status of Librarianship cannot be enhanced by negating professional model.  Simply gegating social science and sociological research does not yild any good result to Librarians.  Functionalism, Power, Conflict and System Theory are theoretical models based on which social nd development research is being conducted globally.  Change of model does not bring esteem or status to Librarian profession.  Libraries being part and parcel of social life, Librarian cannot and should not object objective and research studies on Librarianship.  Professional model based on functionlism has all accommodation and adaptation for all kinds of environments and changes that impact and effect practice of occupation and profession.  Why do librarians of late think they have an option either to go in for or not to go in for professional model.  Library is one of several social organizations which are bound by studies and research by sociologists,  economicsts and Planners.  The argument of authors that the General Systems Theory is more user oriented and pro – change is questionable and too hasty a conclusion.  Let research by other Social Scientists and Librarians prove this.  Current authors and Librarians in general seem to be very much offended by the assertions of W.J.Goode, “Librarianship was not a Profession and not likely to become one (1961)”.   Much time has passed since Goode said this in 1961.  Let us not be self assertive, let us introspect and do the needful in scaling high on the scale of professionalism.  It is possible, may not be very soon probably.

Authors make a classic statement, “Librarianship is in the process of becoming something other than it has been (1980)”.  Wonderful, it is true, there are tremendous changes in the environments which have impacted and will continue to impact our professional practice.  We have seen our graduation from book to micro documents to information to knowledge .... the wonderful graduation towards ‘wisdom management’ is yet to be achieved.  Inspite of tremendous changes in the form and format of the infomration ... librarians can still continue to be librarians .... can still prove their metal in emerging as Wisdom Managers .... no end  at all towards the path of excellence.  Let us not stumble so early and so soon, let us not accept defeat so soon ... this is nothing but our short sightedness.  Since time immemorial librarians had a solid role, they have a role and will continue to have a role.  Librarians will never be jobless.  Society wants them.  They have to change as per changing times.  They should continue to refine their science,  techniques and tools to handle ever changing medium of human thought and history (book, information, knowledge, wisdom).  Librarians should continue to be relevant and indispensible.  We have an indespensible science, research and theory revolving around organization, classification, cataloguing indexing and dissemination.  Every thing else may change in our environment but our basic involvement in these fundamental pre-occupations will not and should not change.  Yes, as authors say,  Librarianship is in the process of becoming some thing other than it has been.  Librarians becoming smething  other than it has been – is only in terms of form and format of information and contents and containers – not with regard to our Philosophy, Theory and Methodology.  Let us have a firm belief in our Foundations , Theories and Paradigms.  Let us not forget Ranganathan and theoretical foundations cherished by him.  Once we stand firm on our Foundations we can cope up with all internal and external environmental changes about which we knowingly get scared.  There is nothing wrong in Librarians getting involved in thoughts about Status and Reputation of Librarianship.  Theoretical Models dont build our profession.  They assist us in building our Science and Theory and Practice.  We need to have appreciation for all models and approaches.  If we dont do so we will be known as escapists for sure.

Conclusions drawn by authors (Hanks and Schmidt)  to a large extent are lopsided, erroneous, misleading and incomplete :

1.       Professions are not higher or separate parts of society as understood by authors.

2.       Authors say, ‘professional judgements cannot be questioned by layman’.  On the contrary professions are the results and manifestations of larger social organizations / Society.  They societal sanctions for self regulation for the welfare of the members of society.

3.       Authors say, ‘Professional model is elitist, but the fact is it is not.  Professiohnalism is pro – society, pro-honesty, pro-ethics, pro-dedication and pro-welfare.

4.       Professional Model gets well with democratic traditions of self governance at different levels of Social Organization.

5.       Authors close their paper by saying that ‘Librarianship is one of those Occupational Groups whose primary concern is to serve the society which has spawned them’. Who denies this?  We are in the business of providing service to Society.

All said and done the ideas presented by authors in this seminal paper continue to spark debates, iscussions and deliberations for many more years and decades.  Right or wrong they have presented their ideas before researchers and practicing librarians.  The best response could be to face the truth about the show pace of professionalisation of our practice, honestly and patiently.  Professional Model based on Functionalism is going to be our torch bearer whether we like or not.  Sooner we realise better it is .

The paper by authors is highly commendable as it will continue to sensitise Sociologists and Librarians for further groping and research.  Hope Librarians will continue to read such life changing papers.  Society has given us a Special Social Space to serve its members as Knowledge Organizers and Disseminators.  As long as we continue to do this honestly to our own full satisfaction, society continues to pay back to us – probably in quantities much beyond our imagination.  We should continue to be indispensible for services, things and ideologies in which we have been trained and tuned.  Under any circumstance, let us not be less than the best in whatever we do and say and stand for.  Best is never a stop but a mirage to follow and glide .... let us proceed further and further.

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[1] This paper or write up is a review of the paper by Hanks and Smidt details of which are :  : :  Hanks, G.C and Schmidt, CJ / Altrnative Model of a Profession for Librarians IN  Patricia Layzell Ward.- ASLIB Reader Series Vol.3.-ASLIB : London, 1980

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Fw: New comment on "Does Librarianship qualify itself to be called a 'fullfledged profession'?"

Librarianship is a noble profession. lotus5673@yahoo.co.in 1816gbgv --- On Mon, 1/2/10, Library Society of the World <groups-noreply@linkedin.com> wrote: From: Library Society of the World <groups-noreply@linkedin.com> Subject: New comment on "Does Librarianship qualify itself to be called a 'fullfledged profession'?" To: "RajLibrarian D" <lotus5673@yahoo.co.in> Date: Monday, 1 February, 2010, 12:16 PM LinkedIn Groups Group: Library Society of the World Subject: New comment (13) on "Does Librarianship qualify itself to be called a full fledged profession? qualify itself to be called a 'fullfledged profession'?" Rajashekhar: I am not apprehensive about the profession, I am merely pointing out an irony. I do agree with you fully that the library is a living organism as Ranganathan points out. I would also point out that librarianship requires a graduate degree with a Masters or PhD from an accredited university and that the degree can be transfered to many fields. If this does not place it in a professional column, I am not sure what would satisfy the professiologists and would have to admit I am not concerned with what they call us as long as we know what we are and how to do our job on a multitude of levels in almost all disciplines. I think on some level where a nurse must know everything about nursing and a lawyer everything about their area of law, their profession is based upon cubby holing their tasks. That this is what they do and this is what they do only. They are experts in their chosen filed. "What do you do?" "I am an engineer studying chemistry". "Oh, so you are a chemical engineer?" In the case of a librarian, they may not be a chemical engineer, but should be able to find the information an engineer, lawyer, nurse, needs even if they had not studied the field. Librarians are all over the place on any given day and can not be easily cubby holed into knowing only one area alone. This may throw some people into not knowing what a librarian does because they are not easily cubby holed. Even if one is an art librarian, and a professor is an expert on Modernism, the art librarian must know how to find proper information on all areas of art. Our profession is to utilize and assess information beyond a patron's niche. In the end, the format and delivery may change, but the necessity to organize and retrieve proper information remains the staple of librarianship. So I am optimistic of the future. This is an interesting conversation. Posted by Lloyd Wedes Go to complete discussion » Don't want to get notifications about this discussion? Unsubscribe here » LinkedIn values your privacy. At no time has LinkedIn made your email address available to any other LinkedIn user without your permission. ©2010, LinkedIn Corporation.

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