The School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce the publication of Library Trends 72 (4). This issue, "Community Librarianship," discusses the evolution of the roles and responsibilities of libraries to support and serve the communities in which they exist. Anna Maria Tammaro and Crystal Fulton served as guest editors.
On March 5, 2025, Library Trends will host a webinar featuring the latest issue, which will include discussions about community librarianship with the guest editors and select authors.
This is the first Library Trends issue to be published fully open access as part of Project MUSE’s Subscribe to Open (S20) model.
The table of contents includes:
- "Introduction: The Imperative Connections among LIS Education, Libraries, and Communities" by Anna Maria Tammaro and Crystal Fulton
- "Libraries, Community Empowerment, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: A Symbiotic Transformation" by Barbara Lison
- "Don’t Call It Apprenticeships: Teaching Libraries in Library Science Education" by R. David Lankes
- "Enhancing Library Communities through Field-Based Projects" by Elizabeth Burns
- "Concentric Learning Communities: Educating Rural Library Staff in Principles of Collaborative Family Learning" by Sarah A. Evans, Lance Michael Simpson, Lacy Noel Molina, and Christy Stanley
- "Studying Community Librarianship through Historical Writings on Public Library Programming Activities: American, British, and Anglo-Scandinavian Perspectives" by Mia Høj Mathiasson
- "Librarianship and Participatory Practices: Something Old, Something Borrowed, and Something New" by Raphaëlle Bats
- "NEWCOMER: Best Practices on Community Librarianship in Europe" by Anna Maria Tammaro, Ilona Kish, Erik Boekesteijn, Tirza De Fockert, Kirstine Bruun, Demicelis Riccardo, Simona Villa, Pillerova Vladana, Vogt Hannelore, and Maja Vunšek
- "Swedish Library Policy and Community Librarianship" by Kerstin Rydbeck
- "Bridging the Digital Divide: Librarians’ Role in Empowering Nigerian Communities through Digital Competencies and Advocacy" by Sophia V. Adeyeye
- "From Tradition to Fast Pacing 4IR and Society 5.0, to Embracing Community Librarianship: An Evolutionary Approach on How to Prepare Students" by Ina Fourie, Theo J.D. Bothma, Marlene Holmner, and Anika Meyer
Library Trends is an essential tool for professional librarians and educators alike. Each issue explores critical trends in professional librarianship and includes practical applications, thorough analyses, and literature reviews. The journal is published quarterly for the School of Information Sciences by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Subscriptions to current issues are available both online and in print.
Back issues (1952 through two years prior to the current issue) are available online through IDEALS, the digital repository for scholarly works produced at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Most recently, IDEALS opened public access to Library Trends 70 (4), "Joy of Information."
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