Deep thinking, beyond brands, down to the core concepts and competencies that define librarianship. Lankes creates thoroughly described verbal and visual explanations of the relationships between the many disparate parts that make up our professional whole. -- Jessamyn West, community technology librarian, blogger, and creator of librarian.net The Atlas is not a book; it is a manifesto, a set of principles and convictions aimed at shaking new life and belief into a field that too often fears for its own future. Read it and be prepared to act. -- Andrew Dillon, Dean and Louis T. Yule Regents Professor of Information, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin
R. David Lankes is Professor and Dean's Scholar for New Librarianship in Syracuse University's School of Information Studies and received the 2016 American Library Association Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship.
[T]he text covers such a vast array of pertinent subjects that
almost any reader…may find a few topics of personal interest.—The
Futurist
Our profession's Finnegans Wake.—Publishers Weekly
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