Competency 2-Are outreach services dead?- another blog about my topic

This blogger, the author of  In the Library with the Lead Pipe,finds a new way to think of library outreach service. I accessed this blog through Technorati.  I included this blog because it contains a fresh perspective on library outreach.

http://inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2009/outreach-is-undead/s.


We need to lay rest to outreach’s physical body–that separate entity that comprises library departments and ancillary programs. As well we need to lay to rest the word “outreach,” whose separate existence inhibits and deters us from doing what we as libraries, librarians, and information professionals should be doing. Instead of integrating library promotion, advocacy, and community-specific targeted services, we have left “outreach” outside of the inclusive library whole to be an afterthought, a department more likely to get cut, or work function of only a few, such as your subject librarians. If we kill this notion, if we consider the word and the separate entity of outreach as dead, we are more likely to be able to embrace and participate in activities formerly known as outreach and incorporate this essential part of our jobs into our daily work routine.