Reconnecting Library Education and the Mission of Community

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Abstract

UNIVERSITIES THROUGHOUT the United States are turning their attention to the ideals of developing and using knowledge for the improvement of society. There has been great concern among academe's various stakeholders that universities currently view students as customers, market themselves as databanks for distance learning, and allocate resources toward their most profitable uses as they slight other institutional values. Issues quite similar to these caused the American Library Association (ALA) to call for a review of professional education at the Congress on Professional Education in 1999. These trends were explored at the institutional level in the 1998 Wingspread Declaration, "Renewing the Civic Mission of the American Research University," which challenged universities to forge a robust sense that their work contributes to the commonwealth of communities, the nation, and the world.
Original languageAmerican English
JournalLibrary Journal
Volume125
StatePublished - Sep 2000

Keywords

  • community engagement
  • library education
  • librarians
  • civic education

Disciplines

  • Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Library and Information Science

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