Moving Past the Deficit Model and Demonstrating our Worth

A report from the Texas Library Association Annual Conference held in Fort Worth, TX, on Apr 26, 2013 is presented. In a comprehensive, 90-minute discussion, Dr R. David Lankes, Professor and Dean's Scholar for the New Librarianship at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies an...

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Published in:Journal of electronic resources librarianship 2013-07, Vol.25 (3), p.231-231
Main Author: Marks, Howard
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic libraries
Associations
Communities
Conferences
Information sharing
Libraries
Library science
University professors
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Summary:A report from the Texas Library Association Annual Conference held in Fort Worth, TX, on Apr 26, 2013 is presented. In a comprehensive, 90-minute discussion, Dr R. David Lankes, Professor and Dean's Scholar for the New Librarianship at Syracuse University's School of Information Studies and Director of the Information Institute of Syracuse, stressed that communities are no longer passive users of services or consumers of reading. Lankes invites librarians to view the library as a maker space platform, a total community resource that shares.
ISSN:1941-126X
1941-1278
DOI:10.1080/1941126X.2013.813316