LIS 450 Information Agencies and Their Environments

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LIS 450 Information Agencies and Their
Environments

• Session 4
• What librarians and other information
  professionals do and how?
• 1. Reference, information literacy, reading

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Outline

• Questions?
• Unequal Legacies
• Units or levels of analysis
• What librarians do and how
• Discussion of articles
• Elmborg
• Davis

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Remember the Dimensions

• Ethics
• History
• Culture
• Power
• Technology

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Units of Analysis

• Individual (pluralism)
• Organization (managerialism)
• Society(class)
• But we can also see organizations as a middle
  layer of analysis between the individual agent
  and social structure

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Librarians and archivists do . . . . . . lots
of things
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reference advocacy preservation
research web design weeding
youth services displays web
2.0 committees instruction shelving
statistics management serials story-hours
outreach bookmobile gaming
cataloguing readers advisory acquisitions
budgets IT summer reading programs
archives bulletin boards public
relations classification liaison systems
subjects events planning digitization
selection training programming
public services
Thanks to Melissa Adler for this slide
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What librarians do Technical and Public
services

• Bibliographic control/Organization of
  Information
• Cataloging, Classification, Indexing, Finding
  aids
• Collection Management
• Reference/information services
• Management

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What librarians/info profs. do some specialized
aspects

• Specialized fields e.g. health, law,
  childrens,YA
• Specialized formats
• Services to special pops.
• Government Documents

• Archives/Special Collections
• Technology/Systems management
• Serials management
• Conserv/Preservation
• Bibliography

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Reference

• Knowledge of sources
• Knowledge of searching techniques
• The reference encounter
• Bibliographic instruction/information
  literacy/pedagogy
• Creation of guides, pathfinders, etc.

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Collection management

• Selection and acquisition/licensing
• Deselection/weeding
• Conservation/preservation
• Intellectual property issues
• Intellectual freedom issues

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Outreach

• Underserved populations
• New and non-readers
• People geographically isolated
• People with disabilities
• Rural and urban poor people
• people generally discriminated against based on
  race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age,
  language and social class.
• Office for Literacy and Outreach Services
• http//www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/olos/in
  dex.cfm