The phrase “library and information studies” is understood to be concerned with recordable information and knowledge and the services and technologies to facilitate their management and use. Library and information studies encompasses information and knowledge creation, communication, identification, selection, acquisition, organization and description, storage and retrieval preservation, analysis, interpretation, evaluation, synthesis, dissemination, and management.
In this definition there is no mention of the philosophical basis for the library’s encouragement of reading or lifelong learning.
Libraries are primarily valued for their contributions to individual and societal lifelong learning and reading and, admittedly for performing a durable if increasing secondary role. Useful technologies come and go, but the impulse to learn, including the desire to learn about technology, can span a person’s entire life. Library patrons believe that the library’s “business” is learning and reading. It is the sort of business s that can ensure that librarians have the opportunity to remain relevant for far longer than the foreseeable future.
Crowley, Bill. “Lifecycle Librarians” Library Journal v. 133 no. 6 April1, 2008 pp. 46-48
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