AARL

Separate but equal: librarians, academics and information literacy

Curt Asher
casher@csub.edu.nospam (please remove '.nospam' from address).

Abstract: Efforts to fit librarians into subject disciplines as teachers have been a destructive trend in library science. Lifelong learning was the aim of bibliographic instruction long before the term 'information literacy' was coined. Librarians and academics provide separate, interdependent instruction, both of which have intrinsic value. Merging the two professions weakens both.

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