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However, Munyoro (2014)  has complained that there is  a gap in the studies that attempt to study the collaboration between Zimbabwean  LIS schools and practitioners in shaping the  professional identity of LIS professionals. Therefore, Munyoro (2014)  suggests that there should be a  study that  will raise awareness about building collaborative synergies between LIS  academics and practitioners. He also suggests that there should be a study that  investigates how these mutual synergies can improve the quality of teaching and  learning, research and community engagement, and allow equitable access to  learning tools. The researcher has assumed that studying how the blended  professional in academic librarianship creates, maintains and disrupts the  theory-practice divide would be a fulfillment of Munyoro's (2014)  recommendation. This is because blended librarianship as proposed by Bell and Shank (2007) has the ability to cut across the dimensions of the  practitioner’s institutional work and that of the LIS schools through the combination of pedagogic  skills, information technology and traditional librarianship.