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deconstruct their long-established roles and routine activities, it is critical
for them to perform reconstruction, that is, how they come to be involved in
critical practices with critical thought tradition (Budd, 2003). Without the
willingness to perform deconstruction and think critically, the improvement
programs designed to enhance library services quality and librarianship will
not touch the real root cause of problems and even will likely to fail to offer
meaningful alternative changes. Ultimately, what have previously been
done by librarians and libraries will not receive any meaningful response
from the community as they are regarded as “average”, underestimated by
the community, and even represented in negative ways and discourse of fear
(Radford & Radford, 2001). It should be acknowledged that a profession
will have value in the eyes of the community as long as it proves able to
offer solutions and significant contributions that propel dynamic changes
in the community for the better.
Librarians’ main task of providing the best services for the community
should not be taken in the sense that librarians should act as no other than
users’ helpers in finding necessary information. It is critical to ensure that
librarians are able to develop critical attitude and innovativeness and to be
driven to generate new breakthroughs. For the librarians and libraries in
this country, the important questions that need to be answered are, to what
extent have they developed critical attitude and to what extent are they
aware of the importance of deconstructing conventional library policies to
generate new programs suiting current development dynamics? (*)

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