The African American Male Librarian: Motivational Factors in Choosing a Career in Library and Information Science

Davis-Kendrick, Kaetrena D.

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“…It appears that technology (Adomi and Ogbomo, 2001;Davis-Kendrick, 2009;Fikar and Corral, 2001;Figyelo, 2005;Hallam and Partridge, 2005;Hallmark and Lembo, 2003;Marcella and Baxter, 2001;Moniarou-Papaconstantinou et al, 2010;Raszewski, 2011;Shannon, 2008;Walker, 2011) and the enjoyment of research (Emanuel, 2012;Fikar and Corral, 2001;Hallam and Partridge, 2005;Hallmark and Lembo, 2003;Luzius, 2006;Raszewski, 2011;Taylor et al, 2009) are also identified as important factors. This could be attributed largely to the shift of emphasis from a humanistic to a more technological approach, and from the traditional paradigm of "library services" to the information paradigm mostly adopted by LIS education.…”

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“…Other factors influencing their choice were the promising prospects of the profession, interest in library work as well as working with the public. Similarly, Davis-Kendrick's (2009) research indicated that the majority of African-American male librarians reported their desire to help people, followed by love for teaching and research as the most influential factors. Other important factors were the participants' enjoyment of technology, their willingness to have a positive impact on their community and their …”

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“…students' perspective in the choice of LIS (3)Hackenberg (2000),Winston (2001),Hackenberg and Chu (2004),Eells (2006),Luzius (2006),Hines and Baker (2008),Shannon (2008),Rathbun-Grubb and Marshall (2009), Jones (2010),Walker (2011), Emanuel (2012) Davis (2007,Kim et al (2007),Lian and Xiong (2008),Davis-Kendrick (2009), Alansari (2011), Sare et al (2012) Marcella and Baxter (2001), Newbutt and Sen (2009), Mugot (2012) Farley-Larmour (2000), Adomi and Ogbomo (2001), Marcella and Baxter (2001), Fighylo (2005), Hallam and Partridge (2005), Ard et al (2006), Berry (2007), Kim et al (2007), Stanley (2007), Bavakutty et al (2008), Issa and Nwalo (2008), Unagha (2008), Hussey (2009), Newbutt and Sen (2009), Taylor et al (2009), Adanu and Amekuedee (2010), Moniarou-Papaconstantinou et al (2010), Olawanle and Abayomi (2010), Simon and Taylor (2011), Egunjobi et al (2013), Singh and Chander (2013), Madu et al (2014), Medeiros (2014) Deeming et al (2001), Fikar and Corral (2001), Hallmark et al (2003), Hines et al (2008), Raszewski (2011), Lambert (2012) Assigned papers to emerged themes Farley-Larmour (2000), Hackenberg (2000) Hallmark and Lembo (2003) Hackenberg and Chu (2004) Berry (2007), Davis (2007), Kim et al (2007), Stanley (2007) Bavakutty et al (2008), Hines and baker (2008), Issa and Nwalo (2008), Lian and xiong (2008), Shannon (2008), Unagha (2008) Davis-Kendrick (2009), Hussey (2009), Newbutt and Sen (2009), Rathbun-Grubb and Marshall (2009), Taylor et al (2009) Adanu and Amekuedee (2010), Jones (2010), Moniarou-Papaconstantinou et al (2010), Olawanlem and Abayomi (2010) Alansari (2011), Raszewski (2011), Simon and Taylor (2011), Walker (2011) Emanuel (2012), Lambert and Newman (2012), Mugot (2012), Sare et al (2012) Egunjobi et al (2013), Singh and Chander (2013) Madu et al (2014), Medeiros (2014) Ard et al (2006), Eells (2006), Luzius (2006) Fighylo (2005), Hallam and Partridge (Chelin (2001),Adomi and Ogbomo (2001),Fikar and Corral (2001),…”

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Choice of Library and Information Science in a rapidly changing information landscape

Moniarou-Papaconstantinou

Vassilakaki

Tsatsaroni

2015

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Users who downloaded this article also downloaded: (2015),"Reducing library space can promote the shift from storage of print-collections towards a learning-centre without limiting the access to information", Library Management, Vol. 36 Iss 8/9 pp. 685-689 http://dx.(2015),"Public library managers' descriptions of political attention", Library Management, Vol. 36 Iss 8/9 pp. 673-684 http://dx.If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -Library and Information Science (LIS) has for a long time tried to gain legitimacy. In an ever changing environment due to technological and economic developments, the motivations behind choice of LIS are still of great interest. The purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic review of studies investigating the motivations that determine the choice of LIS. Design/methodology/approach -Different search terms were run on different but relevant databases. A number of inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied and in total 45 papers were judged as relevant to choice of LIS discipline. A thorough analysis of these papers' content revealed three main themes: choice of LIS, choice of LIS specialty and career change to LIS. Findings -A variety of different motivations for choosing LIS were identified. The same motivations were reported in all groups (high school students, students, professionals). Specifically, love of books and reading, nature of library work, desire to help people were among the most reported motivations. LIS was also chosen as a second career by different professionals mainly due to changes in their first career work environment, the nature of library work, the desire to use knowledge and the transferable skills in their new career. Research limitations/implications -This study considered only peer-reviewed research published between 2000 and 2014 in English. Specifically, it focussed on the motivations that specific groups chose to study LIS both as first and second career. Practical implications -Library schools could raise awareness among high school students regarding the value, role and importance of LIS. Originality/value -This paper examines the factors influencing the choice of LIS in a changing information environment, and sheds light on the individua...

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Moniarou-Papaconstantinou

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2015

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“…Sexist stereotypes often contain implications of incompetence, and might emphasise presumed natural talents of women, such as 'ability to mother,' 'ability to organise,' and sexuality-while downplaying skill, intellect, or technical ability (Gaines, 2014). Since Carmichael's article published in 1992, there has not been much research concerning perceptions about male librarians or the perspectives of male librarians themselves (a notable exception being Davis-Kendrick's (2009) study of African-American male librarians). Perceptions and experiences of librarians from minority groups have been found to be distinct from non-minority groups (Alabi, 2015;Thornton, 2000), and an exploratory study found academic librarians to have varying perceptions of themselves based on generational stereotypes (Hayes, Parks, McNeilly, & Johnson, 2018).…”

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“…Their motivations and affective perceptions of themselves underlie messages they send when recruiting new librarians as well as outreach to patrons in need of their services (McClellan & Beggan, 2019;White, 2012). A common top reason given for choosing librarianship is the desire to help people (Davis, 2007;Davis-Kendrick, 2009). Ard et al (2006) surveyed 96 MLIS students and found the job functions of librarianship to be the major incentive for choosing the profession.…”

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Librarian, Faculty, and Student Perceptions of Academic Librarians: Study Introduction and Literature Review

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A survey concerning perceptions of academic librarians was conducted at a large, 4-year university with three populations: librarians, faculty, and undergraduate students. The high response rate and the use of an instrument based on previous studies offers the possibility of longitudinal comparison and the identification of relationships between groups within one environment. Results will be presented in a series of articles, beginning with this paper's study introduction and literature review of librarian, faculty, and student perceptions of librarians. Subsequent papers will present results from the three surveys and offer analysis across the three groups. The literature review focused on research studies of U.S. and Canadian academic libraries since 2000 with relevance to these major research questions: perceptions about what librarians know (expertise and skills), what librarians do (role and duties), and what librarians are like (motivations and affective behaviours). Librarians' perceptions of themselves as critically important yet underappreciated seem to have persisted, perhaps because they are the only group to see the university-wide scope of their jobs, whereas, non-librarian faculty and students have a more limited views of the profession. In contrast to previous studies, recent literature suggests that course-integrated information literacy (IL) instruction has increased the visibility of librarians as educators to both faculty and students. The influence of popular media on students' perceptions seems less powerful, opening the door wider for library marketing and branding programs.

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The African American Male Librarian: Motivational Factors in Choosing a Career in Library and Information Science

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Choice of Library and Information Science in a rapidly changing information landscape

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