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Librarians/information Specialists: Education For Librarianship

Libraries provide both physical and digital access to a wide variety of materials. Their collections can include books, periodicals, newspapers, films, maps, prints, documents, microforms, audio/visual materials, and electronic resources. Libraries serve to provide materials for public use that individuals may not be able to afford or access otherwise. They are staffed by professionally trained librarians and other support staff and offer services to facilitate research and access to information. Libraries distinguish between circulating collections that can be borrowed and reference collections that must remain on-site.

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Librarians/information Specialists: Education For Librarianship

Libraries provide both physical and digital access to a wide variety of materials. Their collections can include books, periodicals, newspapers, films, maps, prints, documents, microforms, audio/visual materials, and electronic resources. Libraries serve to provide materials for public use that individuals may not be able to afford or access otherwise. They are staffed by professionally trained librarians and other support staff and offer services to facilitate research and access to information. Libraries distinguish between circulating collections that can be borrowed and reference collections that must remain on-site.

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Libraries may provide physical or digital access to material, and may be a physical location or a

virtual space, or both. A library's collection can


include books, periodicals, newspapers, manuscripts, films, maps, prints, documents, microform,
CDs, cassettes, videotapes, DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, e-books, audiobooks, databases, table
games, video games and other formats. Libraries range widely in size, up to millions of items.[3]
Libraries often provide quiet areas for studying, and they also often offer common areas to
facilitate group study and collaboration. Libraries often provide public facilities for access to their
electronic resources and the Internet. Public and institutional collections and services may be
intended for use by people who choose not to—or cannot afford to—purchase an extensive
collection themselves, who need material no individual can reasonably be expected to have, or
who require professional assistance with their research.[citation needed]
Services offered by a library are variously described as library services, information services, or
the combination "library and information services", although different institutions and sources
define such terminology differently. Organisations or departments are often called by one of
these names.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

Librarians/information specialists[edit]
See also: Education for librarianship

Libraries are usually staffed by a combination of professionally-trained librarians,


paraprofessional staff sometimes called library technicians, and support staff. Some topics
related to the education of librarians and allied staff include accessibility of the collection,
acquisition of materials, arrangement and finding tools, the book trade, the influence of the
physical properties of the different writing materials, language distribution, role in education, rates
of literacy, budgets, staffing, libraries for specially targeted audiences, architectural merit,
patterns of usage, the role of libraries in a nation's cultural heritage, and the role of government,
church or private sponsorship. Since the 1960s, issues of computerization and digitization have
arisen.[1]

Types[edit]

Poet Laureate Rita Dove's definition of a library at entrance to the Maine State Library in Augusta, Maine,
United States

Many institutions make a distinction between a circulating or lending library, where materials are
expected and intended to be loaned to patrons, institutions, or other libraries, and a reference
library where material is not lent out. Travelling libraries, such as the early horseback libraries of
eastern Kentucky[11] and bookmobiles, are generally of the lending type. Modern libraries are
often a mixture of both, containing a general collection for circulation, and a reference collection
which is restricted to the library premises. Also, increasingly, digital collections enable broader
access to material that may not circulate in print, and enables libraries to expand their collections
even without building a larger facility. Lamba (2019) reinforced this idea by observing that
“today’s libraries have become increasingly multi-disciplinary, collaborative and networked” and
that applying Web 2.0 tools to libraries would “not only connect the users with their community
and enhance communication but will also help the librarians to promote their library’s activities,
services, and products to target both their actual and potential users”.[12]

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