ACRL

Association of College & Research Libraries

Letter to the editor

I have just read “Academic librarians as advisors” by Paul Studdard (C&RL News, October 2000). Never have I read such a concise and well written defense of, and advertisement for, our profession. People rarely understand what we are professionally capable of, and this piece did much to strongly state our case and our cause.

This is the kind of article that should be featured in all of our professional media. While professions have nothing in the way of apologetics, but this article comes close.—Gary Parsons, Florida Atlantic University, parsons@fau.edu

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