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New. Libraries have existed for millennia, but today the library field issearching for solid footing in an increasingly fragmented (and increasingly digital)information environment. What is librarianship when it is unmoored from cataloging, books, buildings, and committees? In The Atlas of New Librarianship, R. David Lankesoffers a guide to this new landscape for practitioners. He describes a newlibrarianship based not on books and artifacts but on knowledge and learning; and hesuggests a new mission for librarians: to improve society through facilitatingknowledge creation in their communities. The vision for a new librarianship must gobeyond finding library-related uses for information technology and the Internet; itmust provide a durable foundation for the field. Lankes recasts librarianship andlibrary practice using the fundamental concept that knowledge is created thoughconversation. New librarians approach their work as facilitators of conversation; they seek to enrich, capture, store, and disseminate the conversations of theircommunities. To help librarians navigate this new terrain, Lankes offers a map, avisual representation of the field that can guide explorations of it; more than 140Agreements, statements about librarianship that range from relevant theories toexamples of practice; and Threads, arrangements of Agreements to explain key ideas, covering such topics as conceptual foundations and skills and values. AgreementSupplements at the end of the book offer expanded discussions. Although it toucheson theory as well as practice, the Atlas is meant to be a tool: textbook, conversation guide, platform for social networking, and call to action. Copublishedwith the Association of College &Research Libraries. An essential guide to a librarianship based not on books and artifacts but on knowledge and learning.
