Accountability In Library Management: Issues & Strategies For The 21st Century
If libraries are judged on their own merit, in isolation from their parent organisations, the majority in the ASEAN countries can be said to be excellent, even in comparison with libraries in other more developed countries. However it is only when librarians are judged for their role vis a vis th...
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2004
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Summary: | If libraries are judged on their own merit, in isolation from their parent
organisations, the majority in the ASEAN countries can be said to be excellent,
even in comparison with libraries in other more developed countries. However it
is only when librarians are judged for their role vis a vis their parent organizations
that their contribution is seen to be more peripheral rather than integral. For
example, most university libraries are not fully integrated into the teaching –
learning process which forms the core business of universities. Apart from
pedagogical constraints that do not encourage resource-based or informationbased
independent learning, the status of librarians has never been
acknowledged by the academia to be at par. It is librarians who have always
assumed that libraries are critical to national development although not many
outside the library community acknowledge the importance of the library’s role. |
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