The atlas of new librarianship - Lankes, R. David 1970- (MIT Press, 2011)
[pt. 1.] An introduction to the atlas : Navigating the future -- The foundations of the atlas -- Finding a center in the dynamic -- A note on rhetoric -- [pt. 2.] The atlas : A note on visualization -- How to navigate the atlas -- Readers of the atlas -- Limitations of the atlas -- [pt. 3.] Threads : [A.] Mission -- The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities -- Importance of worldview -- Longitude example -- Importance of theory and deep concepts : Libraries and theory -- Conversation theory : Credibility -- Other informative concepts and theories : Dialectic theories ; Sense-making ; Motivation theories ; Motivation ; Learning theory ; Constructivism ; Postmodernism -- Creating a new social compact : Evolution of the social compact -- Thread conclusion -- [B.] Knowledge creation -- The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities -- Knowledge is created through conversation ; Conversation theory : Conversants ; Service is not invisibility ; Language ; Evolution of systems -- System view -- User-based design -- User systems : Social network sites -- Agreements : Artifacts ; Source amnesia ; Invest in tools of creation over collection of artifacts ; Death of documents ; Memory ; Entailment mesh ; Annotations ; Limitations of tagging ; Cataloging relationships -- Scapes -- Reference extract -- Libraries are in the knowledge business, therefore the conversation business -- [C.] Facilitating -- The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities ; True facilitation means shared ownership : Members not patrons or users -- Means of facilitation -- Access : Publisher of community ; Shared shelves with the community ; Meeting spaces -- Knowledge : Library instruction ; Need for an expanded definition of literacy ; Gaming ; Social literacy -- E