Open AccessBook Review: Capturing Our Stories: An Oral History of Librarianship in Transition
Author(s) -
Amy Eiben
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
reference and user services quarterly/reference and user services quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5242
pISSN - 1094-9054
DOI - 10.5860/rusq.57.2.6531
Subject(s) - oral history , transition (genetics) , library science , work (physics) , sociology , political science , engineering , anthropology , computer science , biology , mechanical engineering , biochemistry , gene
During her tenure as president-elect and president of ALA, Dr. Loriene Roy proposed a President’s Initiative to build an oral history of librarianship. Arro Smith, the author of Capturing Our Stories, was fortunate to be under Roy’s advisement as a doctoral student at the time, and he focused his doctoral work on bringing this idea to fruition.