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What's in a name: putting the skills of librarianship back into circulation
Author(s) -
Brice Anne,
Grant Maria J.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
health information and libraries journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.779
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1471-1842
pISSN - 1471-1834
DOI - 10.1111/hir.12080
Subject(s) - mediation , circulation (fluid dynamics) , library science , service (business) , world wide web , sociology , medical education , public relations , medicine , computer science , political science , business , engineering , social science , marketing , aerospace engineering
Anne Brice, recipient of the 2014 Cyril Barnard Memorial Prize, reflects on the themes of names and skills of the health library and information professions. She questions whether service users share the same concerns of librarians that this nomenclature is too narrow and too closely associated with the buildings that provide its name. She proposes that in mediation between the users and their required knowledge sits a unique opportunity to place the profession in the centre of knowledge translation.