Will the Cycle Be Unbroken? Research and Schools of Library and Information Studies
Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)Published 1 January 1984Open access
Thomas Childers
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The most balanced assumption, given the evidence so far, is that research on library matters will at best help build a more solid base for research in librarianship.
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“UNTILWE CAN STATE universal generalizations or laws, based on evidence and confirmable by further observations, librarianship will remain an art or a field of practice and will not be a science or a discipline.” ’ This statement and numerous others in the literature
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