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Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2020
Abstract
The librarian profession needs diversity in its membership to provide service to the variety of patrons who visit libraries and to have the array of skills needed for a library to succeed. Jaeger and Franklin (2017, 23–24) have encouraged the use of inclusive services and outreach programs that take advantage of the diversity inherent in the United States’ population to stir interest in the librarianship profession. Homeschooling students come from a variety of cultural and social backgrounds and rely on public libraries to gain access to curriculum materials, educational programming, and technology. Librarians can use outreach programs to introduce homeschoolers to the variety of librarian positions available, the personality types found in librarianship, and to encourage homeschoolers to enter the library profession. this essay will describe personality types that may exist in librarianship and the need for librarians to know about them; it will also provide an example of an outreach workshop that is designed to stress the importance of having this knowledge for professional development.
ISBN
9781476674902
Recommended Citation
McLaughlin, Paul, "Introducing Homeschooling Students to the Librarian Profession and Personality types" (2020). Book Chapters. 48.
https://ir.law.utk.edu/book_chapters/48
Publisher
McFarland
Keywords
homeschool education, libraries, law librarianship, librarian profession
Disciplines
Education | Law
Publication Information
Published as a chapter in Homeschooling and Libraries: New Solutions and Opportunities edited by Vera Bubnitskaia & Carol Smallwood.