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Personal Ontological Information Responsibility, Jodi Kearns, Rhonda Rinehart
Personal Ontological Information Responsibility, Jodi Kearns, Rhonda Rinehart
Jodi Kearns, PhD
Archivists and Librarians are subjected to social stereotypes by those outside and within the field of library and information science. Many of these role descriptions come from within the LIS professions themselves; the differences between information responsibilities of Archivists and Librarians are not clearly defined. The purpose of this paper is to dispel myths of distinguishable differences in information role responsibilities of Archivists and Librarians. A simple survey was developed and completed by Archivists and Librarians who volunteered to express, in their own words, up to three descriptions of what their information responsibilities are. Responses were recorded in the respondents' …