The document discusses the concept of professional jurisdiction and threats to the library profession's jurisdiction over certain tasks and areas of expertise. It argues that the library profession's "heartland" concerns memory work, such as defending privacy and access to information. However, the profession faces challenges from external claims to expertise and failure to stake claims in new areas. It calls for librarians to reassert their jurisdiction by letting evidence-driven knowledge guide decisions and extending jurisdictional claims in new domains like information organization.

1. Reclaiming the Heartland “Age of Discovery” Conference Association of Southeastern Research Libraries July, 2007 K.G. Schneider http://freerangelibrarian.com

2. Warning to Andrew*: There will be a cat picture * Pace, not Abbott

6. The System of Professions

7. Every profession aims for a heartland of work over which it has complete, legally established control. Andrew Abbott, The System of Professions

8. Jurisdiction

11. Jurisdictional control “should shape, indeed, the very public idea of the tasks that the profession does.”

12. Subordinate jurisdiction

14. A profession that defines itself by its tasks is a jurisdiction highly vulnerable to dissolution through technological change.

15. A Cautionary Tale

16. Our Jurisdiction A historical perspective through the Five Laws* *chronologically remixed

17. Every reader his book

18. The library is a living organism

19. Every book his reader

20. Books are for use

21. Save the time of the reader

22. So where is our heartland?

23. Memory work travail de memoire “ Memory work is a process of engaging with the past which has both an ethical and historical dimension.”

25. Challenges to the heartland

26. External claims to expertise

27. Failure to make aggressive inroads in emerging jurisdictions

28. Task-based jurisdictional claims

29. Isolating ourselves from “the river” (Or, “nobody uses our data”)

31. User-centric views This is key… To reassert jurisdictional control , we must let formal evidence-driven knowledge drive our decisions

33. Reinserting ourselves into the marketplace of ideas about information organization

35. Maricopa

39. Our heritage, our future This Space For Rent

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