Exploring the Image of the Librarian through Themes of Identity and Self

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  • February 28, 2019
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  • Fordham, Winifred
    • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
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  • This paper will explore themes of identity and self as a means of creating a unified identity or multiple information identities for librarians. This paper is being written in response to historical and current literature surrounding the image of the librarian, particularly negative stereotypes. By examining library literature and themes of image, identity, and self, librarians will begin to create identities that will allow them to be recognized by the public as information specialists, educators, and authoritative guides to paths of inquiry. Where yesterday's image of librarians came to be silent stereotypes and shadowy misconceptions, today's librarians are dissatisfied voices too caught up in the language of dissatisfaction to go beyond this stereotype. Tomorrow's librarians must be free to move ahead into roles they have defined for themselves. Exploring principles of the learning process by Jerome Bruner, Lev Vygotsky, and Frank Smith will enable librarians to identify and address patron learning needs in more active ways. By becoming more mindful of the desire for a coherent narrative, as well as by allowing for individual cognitive styles, the librarian will enrich and heighten the patron's learning experience.
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  • Carr, David W.
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  • December 10, 2010

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