Thanks to Fulbright I'll be heading back to Ukraine this spring!
For two weeks in May, I'll conduct a follow-up project dividing my time equally between Kyiv and Crimea.
During my lectures in 2007-8, I found that almost without exception that although I had been invited to talk about technical issues, the audience also expressed strong curiosity about American libraries and in American librarianship in general.
Librarianship is going through drastic changes. It is no surprise that technology has changed the way that people access and organize information. It has also changed the role of the librarian in every imaginable work setting, whether it is an academic, public, corporate, or other. The nature of self-service information retrieval has led librarians and libraries to reevaluate their role in society.
It is for these reasons above that I am researching and writing about emerging trends including the changing role of the librarian.
Currently I am interviewing American librarians from a variety of settings. I encourage them to express in their own words how their jobs have changed and to identify trends. Conversely, I plan to interview and document the perspective of Ukrainian librarians. This research compliment my article recently published in, Slavic & Eastern European Information Resources.
During my lectures in 2007-8, I found that almost without exception that although I had been invited to talk about technical issues, the audience also expressed strong curiosity about American libraries and in American librarianship in general.
Librarianship is going through drastic changes. It is no surprise that technology has changed the way that people access and organize information. It has also changed the role of the librarian in every imaginable work setting, whether it is an academic, public, corporate, or other. The nature of self-service information retrieval has led librarians and libraries to reevaluate their role in society.
It is for these reasons above that I am researching and writing about emerging trends including the changing role of the librarian.
Currently I am interviewing American librarians from a variety of settings. I encourage them to express in their own words how their jobs have changed and to identify trends. Conversely, I plan to interview and document the perspective of Ukrainian librarians. This research compliment my article recently published in, Slavic & Eastern European Information Resources.
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Look at you, getting published in actual academic journals. And with Cyrillic characters to boot. Rock on!
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