Africana Librarians and Outreach

In: Issue: a journal of opinion, Band 10, Heft 3-4, S. 52-57

Abstract

Librarians have always served a wider clientele than those we are
expected to serve. In part this is due to our reluctance to question the
status of individuals who come before us and in part it is due to the public
service orientation of most librarians. In college and university libraries
this wider clientele includes people of all ages from the community, former
students, visiting scholars who come to the library and, through
interlibrary loan, many others long distances away. Some librarians would
say that "outreach" is what every good librarian does.