Teardrops and Closed Caskets!!!Our forgotten Movers & Shakers
Teardrops and Closed Caskets!!!Our forgotten Movers & Shakers Ranganathan’s faithfuls, let’s take a walkabout to explore the Zimbabwe LIS professional recognition or honouring structure. The objective is to discover what the (LIS) field values in terms of bestowing honors at the individual level, and in which ways the awards system will perpetuate or progress those values. In general, the dialogue attempts to inquire where librarian honors fit into the larger context that includes other major Zimbabwean professional awards such as CZI Manager of the Year. Ultimately we may interrogate the following questions: what qualifies as prestige within our field, and how is that scale of prestige viewed from outside librarianship? My intention is to expand the dialogue, to quiz our current rewarding structures and to inspire professional competitive spirit. But, the major underlying theme for this dialogue is the many teardrops and closed caskets (painful losses of 10+ just in 2015