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In 42 hours, I will be done taking my comprehensive exam. C - How will we keep the bubbly cold?

Reviewing Rubin
Overall, my 557 classmates did not favor Rubin’s Foundations of Library and Information Science (2000). Despite this, I picked it up yesterday in the spirit of thorough review and found that while his bits on technology are dated in content and outlook, it did serve as a great reinforcement tool. Things to remember:

• The library is part of a growing, worldwide information infrastructure
  
• “A library’s fundamental purpose is to acquire, store, organize, disseminate or otherwise provide access to the vast bodies of knowledge already produced.” (p. 171)
  
• He also calls for librarians to intermediaries between information and users (Lankes is another)
  
• Rubin names 5 features of library science
  understanding info needs, seeking behavior, info users
  information storage and retrieval
  defining the nature of information and its value
  bibliometrics and citation analysis
  management and administrative issues
  
• Information is a valued commodity
  
• NISO standard Z39.50 developed for searching across OPACs
  
• Know your stakeholders
  
• There are a lot of arguments in favor of fee-charging in any library
  
• Preservation decisions impact access
  
• Controlled vocabularies make access possible, through index or catalog
  
• Professional values, ethics, etc.