Research Issues in Public Librarianship
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- ISBN 9780313278679
- Publication Date: 25 May 1994
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Public librarianship is a constantly changing field, and the direction of its development depends on theoretical and applied research. This book examines many of the research needs in public librarianship and discusses appropriate strategies to meet those needs. The chapters, written by active researchers in the public library field, reflect a variety of issues and opinions. Included are chapters on the evaluation of collections, community awareness of the library as an information source, models for library siting, and communication between librarians and public library educators. Recommendations for further investigations provided by the researchers identify possibilities for increasing knowledge in this field, and a bibliographic essay organizes and summarizes much of the work discussed in the text.
JOY M. GREINER is Director of the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Southern Mississippi. Before becoming an academic, she worked for several years as an administrator in the Jackson, Mississippi, Metropolitan Library System. Her publications have appeared in Library Trends, Public Libraries, Advances in Library Administration and Organization, and other journals.
