Training Urban Information Specialists

Welbourne, James

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Title

Training Urban Information Specialists

Author(s)

Welbourne, James

Issue Date

1971

Keyword(s)

• Libraries and community
• Social service --Information services
• Reference services (Libraries)
• Community information services

Date of Ingest

2007-07-17T20:47:08Z

Abstract

This paper is about the training of urban information specialists , especially as it happened at the University of Maryland. There are many stories on that whole procedure and I have chosen to talk from one vantage point, the idea itself, because I think the concept and the need are even more critical now than when we started in 1970. I would like to disseminate information on what we have learned and what we hope other library schools and institutions will pick up. I will discuss urban information as a field to study and as a professional practice. I do not know what this means for people who are running urban information centers; it could be that the neighborhood information center is one base from which information specialists might work. Our concern was to try to address the critical ghetto problems in this country today, to find those people who are best adapted to solving those problems , to fabricate a living experience that was not insulting to such people, and to communicate to the inner city residents about this service and these professionals. Always in the forefront was service to the people, in particular the Black or the poor in the urban environment of America.

Publisher

Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Series/Report Name or Number

Allerton Park Institute (17th : 1971)

ISSN

0536-4604

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

Conference Paper / Presentation

Language

en

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