Bill Crowley

Spanning the Theory-Practice Divide in Library and Information Science

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Insights into how practitioners, consultants, and faculty can derive theories from actual experience and use them to solve real world problems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scarecrow Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9780810851658
• ISBN-10: 0810851652
• Artikelnr.: 20994505

Autorenporträt

Bill Crowley

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Preface
Part 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 1. Theorizing for Diverging Contexts: Why Research Results and
Theory Development Are So Little Used Outside the Campus; Scenario: "The
People in the Audience Only Have Master's Degrees"
Chapter 4 2. Developing a Research Philosophy; Scenario: The Views of a
Swedish Master Cabinetmaker
Chapter 5 3. The Revival of Pragmatism; Scenario: What Goes Around Comes
Around
Chapter 6 4. Tacit Knowledge: Bridging the Theory-Practice Divide;
Scenario: Improving Reference Effectiveness in Maryland
Chapter 7 5. The Academic as Practicioner; Scenario: Telling Tales Out of
School
Chapter 8 6. The Practicioner as Academic: Adjunct Facility/Lecturers;
Scenario: Tricks of the Teaching Trade
Chapter 9 7. Other Worlds of Practice: The Field Practicioner; Scenario:
"Piled Higher and Deeper"
Chapter 10 8. Other Worlds of Practice: The Consultant; Scenario: Bias in
the Library Board Room
Chapter 11 9. Theory and Revelation; Scenario: God and Research in a
Catholic University
Chapter 12 10. The Foundations for Building Bridges; Scenario: When in
Rome...
Part 13 Postscript
Part 14 Glossary
Part 15 Works Cited
Part 16 Index
Part 17 About the Author