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A school library (or a school media center) is a library within a school where students, and sometimes their parents and staff have access to loan a variety of resources, often literary or digital. The goal of a school library or media center is to ensure that all members of the school community have equitable access "to books and reading, to ...
For a periodical published by a local, state, or regional library, library group, or library association in the United States or Canada which has made an outstanding contribution to librarianship. 1961-1980 Print ALA Libraries and librarianship Ilene F. Rockman Instruction Publication of the Year Award
Library instruction began in the nineteenth century in the United States. [2] In 1880, Justin Winsor, president of the American Library Association (ALA), redefined the role of the librarian as also a teacher. [3] In a 1912 ALA survey, 57% of respondents offered required or elective library instruction courses. [4]
"American Society and the Public Library in the Thought of Andrew Carnegie." Journal of Library History (1975) 10#2 pp 117–138. Rose, Ernestine. The public library in American life (Columbia University Press, 1954) Shera, Jesse Hauk. Foundations of the public library;: The origins of the public library movement in New England, 1629–1885 (1965)
The UNESCO Public Library Manifesto is a document approved by UNESCO in 1949 and updated in Paris on 29 November, 1994. A further update is scheduled for 2021. [ 2 ] It declares the entity's belief towards public libraries internationally as essential institutions for the promotion of peace and education for all of humanity.
The culmination of centuries of advances in the printing press, moveable type, paper, ink, publishing, and distribution, combined with an ever-growing information-oriented middle class, increased commercial activity and consumption, new radical ideas, massive population growth and higher literacy rates forged the public library into the form that it is today.
Since 2006, the ALA has selected a class of Emerging Leaders, typically comprising about 100 librarians and library school students. This minor distinction is a form of organizational outreach to new librarians. The Emerging Leaders are allocated to project groups tasked with developing solutions to specified problems within ALA divisions.
There's a saying in the library world that discovery happens elsewhere [1] (meaning not at the library itself). What is less often mentioned is that "elsewhere" is Wikipedia. Anyone who deals in information science, public access to information, open knowledge, or specialized disciplines must grasp Wikipedia's role as a powerful cultural resource.