Academic Librarians — please help!
For my presentation at the APLA conference, I will be speaking to the idea of professionalism, what it means, how it matters and etc. At the end of my talk, I would like to point out some things that give me hope for the future. One of the things that would give me hope is research/writing that actually matters outside the librarian profession (aka Research that is ultimately not self-serving).
One example I got from Kathryn Greenhill was Peter Morville‘s Ambient Findability, but I would like more. Any ideas? What I am looking for is the opposite of “For Librarians” texts – influential books and articles by librarians that are intended to be read by people who are not librarians.
Morville and fellow librarian, Lou Rosenfeld, wrote Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, a book that is now in its third edition and continues to be hugely influential in web design worlds.
Also Barbara Fister co-authored Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age, which is meant to be read by college students.