Librarian in the underground: What academic libraries can learn from DIY culture

Solomon Blaylock, Declan Ryan

Abstract

Academic library professionals are now in uncharted territory. We’re hurtling through unfamiliar, rapidly shifting landscapes. Information storage and retrieval, scholarly publishing, information literacy: everything’s changing on a daily basis. Get hung up on any one thing, and you’re already working in the past. Allow yourself to be overwhelmed and you’re paralyzed.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.78.6.312
Copyright Solomon Blaylock, Declan Ryan

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