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Beyond Librarianship: Are Librarians Becoming Isolated In The New Information Age?, Margaret Ann Wilkinson, Roma Harris
Beyond Librarianship: Are Librarians Becoming Isolated In The New Information Age?, Margaret Ann Wilkinson, Roma Harris
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This paper continues a series exploring the perceptions of entering university students about the roles of librarians and others. A model developed by Elizabeth Graddy, suggesting that the extent to which an occupation receives legal sanction reflects the public's perception of its social relevance, is tested. While Graddy's focus on the relationships between occupations and the public, rather on conditions within various professions, is reinforced as predicting an occupation's ability to meet the challenges of a changing society, the data from this study demonstrate more predictive variables than those identified by Graddy. A more complex view of the future of …
(Re)Positioning Librarians: Young People's Views On The Information Sector, Margaret Ann Wilkinson, Roma Harris
(Re)Positioning Librarians: Young People's Views On The Information Sector, Margaret Ann Wilkinson, Roma Harris
Law Publications
More than 2,000 students entering their first year of university studies completed questionnaires about the work roles, future employment prospects, educational requirements, status, and starting salaries of twelve occupations. Their responses were compared with U.S. and Canadian government labor-force projections. The results revealed a complex interplay of gender relations in the students' perceptions of the occupational world and their roles within it. The results also revealed an interesting positioning of the job title "librarian" relative to other fields. Unlike their assessment of the other occupations included in the study, the students considerably underestimated the level of education required to be …
Information Sources Used By Lawyers In Problem-Solving: An Empirical Exploration, Margaret Ann Wilkinson
Information Sources Used By Lawyers In Problem-Solving: An Empirical Exploration, Margaret Ann Wilkinson
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The information-seeking behavior of lawyers has not been fully investigated empirically. Prior work has tended to focus on legal research as the central task performed by lawyers in their information-seeking activities. This analysis of more than 150 interviews of practicing lawyers showed that legal research should not be considered information-seeking. The lawyers interviewed identified other tasks, such as administration of their law practices, as constituting problem-solving, information-seeking activities. In solving their problems, the lawyers overwhelmingly preferred informal sources when seeking information. In addition, they preferred sources of information internal to their organizations rather than external sources, although this was less …