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The Children's Librarian as Viewed by Library School Educators
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| Title: | The Children's Librarian as Viewed by Library School Educators |
| Author(s): | Shaw, Spencer G. |
| Subject(s): | Children’s libraries |
| Abstract: | The triad is a combination of a group of elements that may be studied by scholars in different disciplines. A scientist may probe the secrets which are contained within its chemical compounds; a musician may extricate from it different tonal chords. Aspiring to be neither scientist nor musician, I shall utilize this unique configuration in the context of our concerns at this institute. As an educator in the field of librarianship, I perceive the individual who engages in library service for children as a 3-dimensional configuration. Within the framework of a triad, it will be necessary to focus attention on three closely related elements that will influence the structuring of any profile of a children's librarian. These three elements are: (1) to have knowledge of the total environment that may affect children or be affected by children, (2) to have a knowledge of children with their singular commonalities and disparities and of their world with its dichotomous patterns, and (3) to have a knowledge of the philosophy, organization and program of service that will make library service to children an integral part of the total structure of the public library. |
| Issue Date: | 1977 |
| Publisher: | Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |
| Citation Info: | In S.K. Richardson (ed). 1977. Children’s services of public libraries: Papers presented at the 23rd Allerton Park Institute. Urbana, Il: Graduate School of Library Science: 37-47. |
| Series/Report: | Allerton Park Institute (23rd : 1977) |
| Genre: | Conference Paper / Presentation |
| Type: | Text |
| Language: | English |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1661 |
| ISBN: | 0-87845-049-1 |
| ISSN: | 0536-4604 |
| Publication Status: | published or submitted for publication |
| Rights Information: | Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. 1977. |
| Date Available in IDEALS: | 2007-07-23 |
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1977: Children's Services of Public Libraries
Allerton Park Institute Proceedings (no. 23, 1977); Edited by Selma K. Richardson
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