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The Atlas of New Librarianship

av R. David Lankes

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"Libraries have existed for millennia, but today the library field is searching for solid footing in an increasingly fragmented (and increasingly digital) information environment. What is librarianship when it is unmoored from cataloging, books, buildings, and committees? In The Atlas of New Librarianship, R. David Lankes offers a guide to this new landscape for practitioners. He describes a new librarianship based not on books and artifacts but on knowledge and learning; and he suggests a new mission for librarians: to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities. The vision for a new librarianship must go beyond finding library-related uses for information technology and the Internet; it must provide a durable foundation for the field. Lankes recasts librarianship and library practice using the fundamental concept that knowledge is created though conversation. New librarians approach their work as facilitators of conversation; they seek to enrich, capture, store, and disseminate the conversations of their communities. To help librarians navigate this new terrain, Lankes offers a map, a visual representation of the field that can guide explorations of it; more than 140 Agreements, statements about librarianship that range from relevant theories to examples of practice; and Threads, arrangements of Agreements to explain key ideas, covering such topics as conceptual foundations and skills and values. Agreement Supplements at the end of the book offer expanded discussions. Although it touches on theory as well as practice, the Atlas is meant to be a tool: textbook, conversation guide, platform for social networking, and call to action."--M.I.T. Press Web page.… (mer)
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outstanding and very thought provoking ( )
  pollycallahan | Jul 1, 2023 |
Lankes porta il colpo letale alle biblioteche locali. Merita per questo due stelle, mentre per la visione sulla professione di bibliotecario ne meriterebbe cinque.
Perché l’Autore vuole ferire a morte un sistema di servizi culturali locali (e non solo) già al collasso? Vada lui a spiegare all’assessore di Roncofritto che “la missione del bibliotecario consiste nel migliorare la società facilitando la creazione di conoscenza nelle comunità di riferimento”, quando lo stesso è quotidianamente impegnato a ridurre il capitolo di bilancio dell’acquisto libri a prescindere da qualsiasi lapalissiana dimostrazione della necessità e dell’efficacia dell’acquisto di novità - figuriamoci se gli suggeriamo con la teoria del nostro Esimio che i manufatti sono superati, relativi, secondari, sarebbe capace di stralciare il capitolo intero: soldi inattesi da dirottare verso cittadinanze onorarie, gemellaggi strampalati, anniversari faraonici e sagre rionali.
Quando il Teorico arriva dagli Stati Uniti d’America si capisce al volo che la sua spietata analisi del mondo bibliotecario (cariatidi ancorate al mattone, al catalogo di reperti e alla autoreferenzialità monadica) mira a configurare un ruolo professionale che nelle aziende americane sarà richiesto e apprezzato. Ve lo immaginate qualcuno in Italia che cerca lavoro con un curriculum di bibliotecario perché è ciò che richiedono le migliori imprese del Paese?
Penso che la prospettiva, la visione e la vocazione delineate da Lankes siano oggettivamente “moderne” (come si effigia di definirsi il suo atlante): delineano il profilo professionale del bibliotecario in coerenza sia con le richieste del presente sia con la tradizione millenaria, un profilo in grado di assecondare le esigenze di molti compiti in ambito educativo, comunicazionale e nell’ambito dell’organizzazione della conoscenza. In poche parole sono completamente d’accordo con il suo tentativo di ridefinizione e superamento della figura del bibliotecario tradizionale e non aggiungo altro su questa concordanza.
Mi preme, invece, sottolineare l’esigenza, qui in Italia, Paese che non garantisce i propri presidi culturali (la scuola pubblica è costantemente colpita da provvedimenti regressivi, i beni culturali abbandonati, il patrimonio demaniale svenduto e alienato), spesso totalmente privo di istituti culturali comunitari, sovente dotato di micro-biblioteche gestite da one person librarians costretti ad occuparsi di altri servizi, (perché sarebbe uno scandalo che si occupassero solo della biblioteca) – dicevo: mi preme sottolineare l’esigenza, prima di propugnare questa nuova figura professionale (senza aver garantito in nessun modo la precedente), di preservare le strutture esistenti, come le piccole biblioteche, (tutto di esse è superato, antiquato e secondario – stando alle considerazioni dell’Autore - ma ha ancora un forte valore fisico, materiale, spaziale nella realtà e nell’immaginario delle piccole comunità locali): proprio la fisicità del luogo è importante, non si dovrebbe abolire inseguendo slogan alla Steve Jobs, è importante perché permette a persone reali di incontrarsi, di incontrare un esperto vero, ed esseri umani empatici e curiosi o di sedersi e stare qualche ora in silenzio, leggendo (“un posto dove leggere in pace” sarebbe per me un motivo sufficiente per aprire una biblioteca) o osservando libri, riviste, ascoltando musica o guardando un film, o, infine, consultando internet in un ambiente sereno, neutrale e sicuro. Dato che nessun altro posto permette di vivere tutte queste esperienze positive (senza pagare) in un piccolo paese di provincia o in una periferia anonima anche di piccole città gentrificate, io non lo distruggerei all’improvviso perché abbiamo finalmente capito (noi intellettuali bibliofili) che la missione del bibliotecario è la comprensione dell’architettura della conoscenza, comprensione non fine a se stessa ma che ha come intrinseco obiettivo l’accompagnamento degli utenti verso gli accessi di questo complesso e oscuro edificio teorico.
Scaturirebbe da questa “illuminazione” e conquista gnoseologica che non serve l’edificio materiale (la biblioteca), non serve lo spazio (qualsiasi spazio è sufficiente con la connessione wifi e un bibliotecario virtuale), non serve neanche la tecnologia (con la quale l’antiquato bibliotecario riproduce l’ossessione per gli inventari collezionando al posto di manufatti materiali manufatti digitali) e tanto meno servono le deprecate collezioni di reperti materiali, perché basta la salvifica e a tratti sciamanica capacità del bibliotecario di facilitare le conversazioni in corso per creare conoscenza.
Plasmiamo la nuova professionalità del bibliotecario in laboratorio, nei consessi accademici, nella sperimentazione metodologica, ma garantiamo la sopravvivenza del professionista (il bibliotecario) e dell’edificio che ne giustifica la collocazione professionale (la biblioteca) con una tutela legale, cioè perorando la necessità di una legge nazionale che imponga la presenza di un bibliotecario e del suo presidio fisico per ogni comunità locale (comune, unione di comuni, fusione di comuni, quartiere, new town ecc.), prima di applicare una teoria tanto avanzata ad una realtà così arretrata che non può sostenerne l’impatto. ( )
  Tiziano_Tani | Oct 6, 2015 |
I don't think I will ever be fully "done" with this book - I am, however, done with the portions I had to read for the New Librarianship Master Class I took in July. I'm hoping to read some of the other sections at a later date, but from what I was able to read for class, I was very impressed. ( )
  librariankate7578 | Aug 9, 2013 |
Decided to return this to the Library and buy a copy for my own. ( )
  lauren.castan | Apr 3, 2013 |
It took me much longer than I anticipated to read this book, but I am so glad I invested the time and effort. After having spent the past ten years of my life working in libraries, I have seen some drastic changes. The gain and loss of funding, an economic recession, building closures, technological innovations and near-ubiquity, shifting organizational structures are just some drastic changes off the top of my head. However, there are some very basic principles that I have seen in mentors and role models that have not changed, and those principles are what Lankes is getting at in his atlas.

I met a lot of people in my Library and Information Science program that became librarians because they love books. Personally, I appreciate books for their utility and occasionally for their beauty, but I don’t want to own them, and I certainly don’t love them. I love what they provide. I became I librarian because I wanted to help people. This is the sustainable aspect of the profession; this is what will carry librarians into the future. Jennifer Rose Recht wrote a supplemental agreement in The Atlas of New Librarianship that sums it up:

“We are caretakers of information. And when we focus all our energy on the fraction of information that is contained in books, it’s as if the whole richness of programming to be found in a library can be ignored or reduced to the question of whether, on the way out, someone checked out a book” (p. 299).

So, if we aren’t about books, what are we about? Lankes lays this out quite nicely. He says repeatedly, “The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities.” There are a lot of parts to that mission, and each one is worth noting. He uses the term librarians rather than libraries for a very specific purpose. It is not the collection of artifacts (books, audio recordings, maps, etc.) that make a library, it is the librarian. I heard Lankes give a presentation online in which he stated something similar to this: A room full of books is simply a closet; an empty room with a librarian is a library. It doesn’t matter what tools we use to curate information and talk about knowledge.

The next part of this mission is about improving society. Librarians are required to help others; it’s part of the job description. I have a degree in sociology, but I decided to be a librarian. I wanted to focus my passions to help others find, acquire, and process information to improve their lives. There is something in empowering others through helping them make use of newly procured knowledge that feels wonderful and accomplished. Not everyone is able to go to work every day and feel the impact of positivity they provide in others’ lives. It is a noble profession that librarians should be proud to be a part of.

Facilitating knowledge creation is next. The idea of facilitating is a long-held goal of librarians. When the world’s information was focused in books, the librarian was needed to help wade through this knowledge, creating pathfinders, indices, performing interviews with patrons to figure out what resources could best help them, and teaching others how to use these artifacts. The inventions of the World Wide Web and search engines have not negated the need for facilitation with information. There is much more information than ever. The questions asked of librarians may have changed and ready reference may be best answered through a search engine query, but the deeper and more complicated questions are not going to be found this way. The power of the librarian is the conversation. This conversation could be between librarian and patron, but it may also be between the patron and another organization and facilitated by a librarian. It may be among patrons. There is no limit to the reaches of conversation, and with social tools on the web we are seeing that multiplied one hundred fold. Conversations are everywhere, and only through conversations (among people or within ourselves) is knowledge created.

The last part of the mission discusses communities. Librarians will help anyone (within reason) who walks into the library. This, however, is not the end of the community. Librarians must actively seek out all of the communities, whether they use the library or not, that the library does or could potentially serve. There are endless ways to describe community: people that live nearby, businesses, social services, hobbyists, children, you name it. The opportunity to fulfill the mission of librarians is limitless when you leave the library building. It is shortsighted to think people will use the library unless you make it so easy and so obvious how the library can help them. One of the best ways to do this is to go where librarians are needed. Joining groups, getting on advisory boards, visiting schools and community centers are just a few ways to make the librarian integrated into and integral to the community.

All day long, librarians are performing various tasks, some the public sees, but many are behind the scenes. Many feel deluged with tasks and the thought of having more to do invokes anxiety and frustration. I know from personal experience that I do a lot of things throughout the day that could easily be done by others who have a lot less on their daily plates. I work with smart, capable, and professional people who do not have the title of librarian but who run circles around me in readers advisory. We have tools and staff that can be reallocated in ways that allow for more than enough time if we change how the library is run and how we do our jobs. We need to innovate. Lankes, on innovation, states: “Those things that are taking your time are the things you should be looking to innovate. Innovation is not a time slot, it is an attitude” (p. 127).

As in any profession, there will be disagreements about what we do and how to do it. Hopefully, though, most will agree on why we exist. That agreement is what will create the future of librarianship. If our tasks and methods are based on that, librarianship will survive. People can become very attached to those tasks they had been doing for years and may rile against change. Lankes refers to a persona called bibiofundamentalist, dedicated to tradition and social obligations. These traditions often revolve around artifacts, standards, and statistics. They will argue against new librarianship.

“The voices of bibliofundamentalists must not be silenced or dismissed. We must not look on them as enemies. Instead we must thank them for their service and ask them why. Why do we collect? Why do we classify? Why do we promote reading? Listen, then ask them, politely, isn’t it so we can make society a better place? If we can agree on that, then we have only but to define our terms. Debate and challenge is only good for this profession. It means there is a conversation going on, and we are learning.

“But listen to me. There will come a point when the debate must end – when, as we know from our understanding of Conversation Theory, we must agree to disagree. Then we will have to do something painful. We will have to leave them behind” (p. 172).
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"Libraries have existed for millennia, but today the library field is searching for solid footing in an increasingly fragmented (and increasingly digital) information environment. What is librarianship when it is unmoored from cataloging, books, buildings, and committees? In The Atlas of New Librarianship, R. David Lankes offers a guide to this new landscape for practitioners. He describes a new librarianship based not on books and artifacts but on knowledge and learning; and he suggests a new mission for librarians: to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities. The vision for a new librarianship must go beyond finding library-related uses for information technology and the Internet; it must provide a durable foundation for the field. Lankes recasts librarianship and library practice using the fundamental concept that knowledge is created though conversation. New librarians approach their work as facilitators of conversation; they seek to enrich, capture, store, and disseminate the conversations of their communities. To help librarians navigate this new terrain, Lankes offers a map, a visual representation of the field that can guide explorations of it; more than 140 Agreements, statements about librarianship that range from relevant theories to examples of practice; and Threads, arrangements of Agreements to explain key ideas, covering such topics as conceptual foundations and skills and values. Agreement Supplements at the end of the book offer expanded discussions. Although it touches on theory as well as practice, the Atlas is meant to be a tool: textbook, conversation guide, platform for social networking, and call to action."--M.I.T. Press Web page.

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