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: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• 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 is a Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois.

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