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Loading... Self-Examination: The Present and Future of Librarianship (Beta Phi Mu Monograph Series)by John M. Budd
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I tried to like this book, but it turns out to be mostly a heavy theoretical treatise. The first chapter is a historical overview of libraries from the dawn of time to the 20th century. It is pretty dry reading. The other chapters are not that much better. Maybe for me, in large measure, the book did not work because much of what is in the book I have read in various forms in other sources, especially during library school. Instead of providing a true self-reflection of the profession (what I expected), the book got bogged down with a lot of theory, old history, and philosophizing. I was interested in the ethics chapter, but I think there are better places to read in order to consider the ethics of our profession. As a practicing librarian, this is one book about the profession to skip, unless you happen to like dense reading. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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What makes us librarians? What is it we do that is indispensable? John Budd joins an august group of library-science luminaries, such as Pierce Butler, Jesse Shera, and Michael Gorman, whose works and example invite professional and critical self-examination. Here, Budd challenges us to confront the uneasy truth of whether libraries still represent people's will and intellect, or the cabalistic enclaves of an old guard? Through intellectually rich and engaging entrees into ethics, democracy, social responsibility, governance, and globalization, he makes the case that librarians who fail to grasp the importance of their heritage will never truly respond to societal change or the needs of the individual user. No library descriptions found. |
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