Dual Function Librarianship:

Paster, Amy

doi:10.1300/j120v15n34_02

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“…The idea that librarians should perform both technical services and public services functions has been discussed in the literature for at least 20 years. One of its earlier and most outspoken advocates was Michael Gorman (1979) whose call for ecumenical librarianship (1983) has been echoed in such terms as holism (Murray-Lachapelle, 1983), renaissance librarianship (McCombs, 1986), or dual function librarianship (DeDonato, 1991;Linsley;1984;Paster, 1991). Several authors have described factors conducive to integration (Busch, 1985;McCombs, 1986), while others enumerate advantages, disadvantages and organizational consequences (Altmann, 1988;Davenport, 1991;Moeckel,1993;Paster, 1991).…”

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Canadian academic libraries and cross-divisional assignments : a survey

Hoffman¹,

Bélanger²

1999

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This paper reports the results of a survey of Canadian academic libraries to determine whether traditional technical/public services divisions still exist, and where they do, to what extent professional librarians were performing both technical and public services functions. Data was gathered in the fall and winter of 1995/96 through a mailed questionnaire which was then discussed with each participant in a telephone interview. Findings show that separate divisions still predominate, but that 74% of the libraries had librarians performing functions in another division. Respondents indicated when cross-divisional assignments had been initiated, factors involved in the implementation, advantages and disadvantages to the library, the numbers and types of duties performed, and the proportion of time spent in these split assignments. All participants with professional librarians performing both public and technical services functions stated that the practice would continue. Cross-divisional assignments appear to work well for the libraries where they are in place.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%