Evan Ira Farber
Evan Ira Farber | |
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Bronx, New York | |
Died | February 12, 2009 | (aged 86)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Known for | Head Librarian at Earlham College |
Evan Ira Farber (June 30, 1922 – February 12, 2009)[1] was Faculty Emeritus and former Head Librarian at Earlham College. Throughout his career, he was active with the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), holding positions that included Chair of the ACRL College Library Section from 1968 to 1969[2] and President of the ACRL from 1978 to 1979.[3] He was also active with the ACRL College Leadership Committee and the ACRL College Libraries Mentor Program.[4]
Early career
Farber was born in the
Bibliographic instruction
Farber was highly regarded as a leader and authority on the subject of
Faculty–librarian cooperation
To support effective bibliographic instruction, he has also emphasized the necessity of developing faculty-librarian cooperation.[9] By working together with faculty, librarians were involved in specific courses at Earlham College and were thus able to structure their instruction towards specific assignments, with the result that the instruction became directly relevant to students’ interests.[10] Regarding the benefits of an ideal cooperative relationship between faculty and librarians, he stated: "When that cooperative relationship works well, it can result in assignments that approach, if not reach, what I consider the ideal: where both the teacher's objectives and the librarian's objectives are not only achieved, but are mutually reinforcing – the teacher's objectives being those that help students attain a better understanding of the course's subject matter, and the librarian's objectives being those that enhance the students’ ability to find and evaluate information."[11]
Awards
- 1980 Academic/Research Librarian of the Year Award
- 1987 Miriam Dudley Instruction Librarian Award
- 1992 University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science Distinguished Alumni Award
References
- ^ Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011.
- ^ "Section Manual." American Library Association. 2006. http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/aboutacrl/acrlsections/collegelibraries/aboutcoll/sectionmanual.htm Archived 2006-12-06 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ "Chapter 15 History". American Library Association. 2006.
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- ^ "Evan Farber". Earlham in Memoriam. 2010-07-12. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
- ^ Larry Hardesty (1993). "Preface". In Larry Hardesty, Jamie Hastreiter & David Henderson (ed.). Bibliographic Instruction in Practice: a Tribute to the Legacy of Evan Ira Farber. Ann Arbor, MI: Pierian Press. pp. v–vi.
- ^ a b c d Evan Farber (1974). "Library instruction throughout the curriculum: Earlham College Program" (PDF). In John Lubans Jr. (ed.). Educating the Library User. New York: R. R. Bowker. pp. 145–162. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-09-23. Retrieved 2006-12-10.
- ^ Evan Farber (1974). "College librarians and the university-library syndrome". In Evan Ira Farber & Ruth Walling (ed.). The Academic Library: Essays in Honor of Guy R. Lyle. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. pp. 12–23.
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- ^ Evan Farber (1993). "Bibliographic instruction at Earlham College". In Larry Hardesty, Jamie Hastreiter & David Henderson (ed.). Bibliographic Instruction in Practice: a Tribute to the Legacy of Evan Ira Farber. Ann Arbor, MI: Pierian Press. pp. 1–25.
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