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Overseas Librarians: “The Specter Of Voluntarism And The Hobgoblin Of Non-Professionalism”, Michele Gibney
Overseas Librarians: “The Specter Of Voluntarism And The Hobgoblin Of Non-Professionalism”, Michele Gibney
Michele Gibney
The following paper is on working abroad in a foreign country. It focuses primarily on Peace Corps volunteers—how they become involved with library development, what practices they instigate to promote the library’s collection, and how they create sustainability for the library. All of these elements combine, in my thesis, to show the “professional” nature of an overseas librarian. I argue that the perception of overseas librarians goes through peaks and valleys— the wartime conditions fostered international cooperation between allied powers and thus overseas librarians during the 1940’s were perceived as facilitators of international communication, the 1970’s were a slump in …
The Role Of Libraries, Librarians, And Information In Society, Michele Gibney
The Role Of Libraries, Librarians, And Information In Society, Michele Gibney
Michele Gibney
In the text Foundations of Library and Information Science by Richard E. Rubin and the online lectures for LIBR 200 at SJSU taught by Deborah Hansen, the history of information and librarianship is detailed and given scope. Some of the major points that the materials cover are: the missions and values of libraries, the beginning of libraries as institutions, librarianship as a profession, and the advent of technology, specifically, the World Wide Web. This paper will summarize these points as they have been detailed in the readings and then examine them from a personal perspective, one by one. Many interesting …