The ATG News Channel Book of the Week March 7, 2011
The Atlas of New Librarianship by R. David Lankes. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2011. Copublished with ACRL 408 pages. 78-0262015097
David Lankes keynoted the 2009 Charleston Conference and brought down the house. This Atlas is not so much a book as a call to action for all librarians to define their core principles convictions and to take charge of our own future. The book is due out May 31, 2011.
Leah was appointed Executive Director of the Charleston Conference in 2017, and has served in various roles with the Charleston Information Group, LLC, since 2004. Prior to working for the conference, she was Assistant Director of Graduate Admissions for the College of Charleston for four years. She lives in a small town near Columbia, SC, with her husband and two kids where they raise a menagerie of farm animals.
ACRL is delighted to be co-publishing The Atlas of New Librarianship by David Lankes with MIT Press. We will be holding a book launch at our ACRL 2011 conference in Philadelphia. Anyone attending the conference is invited to join us at 2 p.m. in Convention Center Room 103 to celebrate this fabulous publication! David will be signing copies at that event as well as saying a few words about the book itself.
The book can be pre-ordered now at the MIT Press site http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12560.
Thank you for noting this publication in Against-the-Grain
Kathryn — Thanks for the news! What day is the launch? I hope to be there. Katina
hehe, huge kettle of fish! I think that there is a mssviae, almost inert concept in the minds of many librarians and most of the public about what libraries are. I have seen some examples of a progressive view, but I’m not sure how much sway that view has in the big picture. However, I think that the ones who’d like it to evolve can create new phenomena in libraries that allow people to see the value of these new possibilities. I am working on a project where I visit classrooms virtually, through a chat server, and introduce e-resources that… Read more »