http://acrlog.org/2006/01/24/public-service-identity-crisis/ Blogging by and for academic and research librarians Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:32:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://acrlog.org/2006/01/24/public-service-identity-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-593 Barbara Fister Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:16:37 +0000 http://acrlblog.org/?p=157#comment-593 Scott Bennett has argued we should stop thinking in terms of service altogether and plan our libraries not around service delivery, but around learning. “Our purpose,” he says, “is not to circulate books, but to ensure that the circulation of knowledge produces learning. Reconceiving our purposes involves a fundamental shift for librarians trained in a service culture – one that is comparable to the shift that faculty are making from a teaching to a learning culture” Bennett, Scott. "<a href="http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub129/bennett.html" rel="nofollow">Righting the Balance.</a>" <i>Library as Place: Rethinking Roles, Rethinking Space.</i> Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2005. 10-24. Scott Bennett has argued we should stop thinking in terms of service altogether and plan our libraries not around service delivery, but around learning. “Our purpose,” he says, “is not to circulate books, but to ensure that the circulation of knowledge produces learning. Reconceiving our purposes involves a fundamental shift for librarians trained in a service culture – one that is comparable to the shift that faculty are making from a teaching to a learning culture” Bennett, Scott. “Righting the Balance.” Library as Place: Rethinking Roles, Rethinking Space. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2005. 10-24.

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