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Libraries In The Age Of Mediocrity
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Book Synopsis Libraries in the Age of Mediocrity by : Earl Lee
Download or read book Libraries in the Age of Mediocrity written by Earl Lee and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I only wish I had your paper before me when I wrote Silicon Snake Oil"--Clifford Stoll. "Ultimately, " says Earl Lee, "libraries are involved in the quest for truth, but conceptualize it in a way very different from most. Library professionals pursue a philosophy of inclusion, trying to have as many versions of Truth as possible, in the hopes that somewhere in the mass of material, something meaningful may be found by some discerning reader. But in recent years the mass of data has grown to bury truth and defeat the discerning. Librarians have lost sight of what is important." The uncontrollable mass of data, the transformation of the library to an information center, the demise of the card catalog, the meretriciousness of publishers offerings, the dumbing down of textbooks, the decision by the Library of Congress to use the OCLC online system exclusively--these are all the subjects of thought-provoking and unsweetened opinions, welcome reminders of the rich tradition of intellectual freedom in the profession.
Book Synopsis The Generation X Librarian by : Martin K. Wallace
Download or read book The Generation X Librarian written by Martin K. Wallace and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generation X includes individuals born roughly between 1961 and 1981. This generation has faced major advances in technology, environmental degradation, and widening economic injustice, all of which affect libraries and librarians. This collection of critical essays highlights the special challenges that face Generation X librarians. Topics covered include management and leadership, rapidly changing technology, social attitudes and stereotypes within popular culture, and how Generation X librarians have responded to or developed in response to those themes. This work fills many of the gaps present in the professional literature on librarianship and our younger generations.
Book Synopsis The Accidental Systems Librarian by : Rachel Singer Gordon
Download or read book The Accidental Systems Librarian written by Rachel Singer Gordon and published by Information Today, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical advice on using research, organizational, and bibliographic skills to solve system problems. Staff request.
Book Synopsis Ethics and Values in Librarianship by : Wallace Koehler
Download or read book Ethics and Values in Librarianship written by Wallace Koehler and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics and Values in Librarianship: A History addresses the processes of development of library and information sciences, largely but not exclusively in a western context. It focuses on the field’s ethics and values. Here, Wallace Koehler, a leading researcher in the area of information ethics, debunks the prevailing notion that library and information science concepts and ethics have and remain constant. He demonstrates that in almost all areas of practice, this is simply not so. Instead of staying the same, our professional ethics and standards have evolved or shifted in their application as well as in the recognition of those standards by practitioners and users. Some of these changes are of very recent etiology. Topics covered include: · the freedom of expression, · intellectual freedom, · libraries and democracy, · intellectual property, copyright, and fair use and, · professional qualifications and credentialing. Koehler examines the development of and changes to library and information science through practice and the writings of library and information theorists and practitioners from Varro during the reign of Julius Caesar to the present. He documents technological and social changes that have had foundational implications for the information professions and argues that ethical standards may be redefined overtime and new standards may emerge, older precepts and newer ones coexist. Not only a history, this is also one of the few contemporary books suitable for use in foundational courses and courses covering information and library ethics.
Download or read book Mediocracy written by Alain Deneault and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was no Reichstag fire. No storming of the Bastille. No mutiny on the Aurora. Instead, the mediocre have seized power without firing a single shot. They rose to power on the tide of an economy where workers produce assembly-line meals without knowing how to cook at home, give customers instructions over the phone that they themselves don’t understand, or sell books and newspapers that they never read. Canadian intellectual juggernaut Alain Deneault has taken on all kinds of evildoers: mining companies, tax-dodgers, and corporate criminals. Now he takes on the most menacing threat of all: the mediocre.
Book Synopsis Library Association Record by : Library Association
Download or read book Library Association Record written by Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the 22d-33d annual conference of the Library Association in v. 1-12; proceedings of the 34th-44th, 47th-57th annual conference issued as a supplement to v. 13-23, new ser. v. 3-ser. 4, v. 1.
Book Synopsis The Baptist Library by : Charles George Sommers
Download or read book The Baptist Library written by Charles George Sommers and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Library and Information Science Annual. Volume 7 by : Bohdan S. Wynar
Download or read book Library and Information Science Annual. Volume 7 written by Bohdan S. Wynar and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sarge written by Scott Stossel and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 821 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As founder of the Peace Corps, Head Start, the Special Olympics (with wife Eunice Kennedy Shriver), and other organizations, Sargent Shriver was a key social and political figure whose influence continues to the present day. This authorized biography, exhaustively researched and finely rendered by Scott Stossel (deputy editor of The Atlantic), reads like an epic novel, with “Sarge” marching through the historical events of the last century—the Great Depression, World War II, JFK’s assassination, the Cold War, and many more. Sarge gives us a complete account of Shriver’s life, as well as a thoughtful commentary on the Kennedy family, the Peace Corps, and United States and world history. It is a riveting and comprehensive reconstruction of a life that exemplifies what it means to be a true American.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science by : Allen Kent
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science written by Allen Kent and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1974-04-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science provides an outstanding resource in 33 published volumes with 2 helpful indexes. This thorough reference set--written by 1300 eminent, international experts--offers librarians, information/computer scientists, bibliographers, documentalists, systems analysts, and students, convenient access to the techniques and tools of both library and information science. Impeccably researched, cross referenced, alphabetized by subject, and generously illustrated, the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science integrates the essential theoretical and practical information accumulating in this rapidly growing field."
Book Synopsis Library Literature & Information Science by :
Download or read book Library Literature & Information Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An index to library and information science literature.
Book Synopsis Collection Development by : Maureen Pastine
Download or read book Collection Development written by Maureen Pastine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the prolific changes in the electronic environment, do you sometimes feel overwhelmed by the multiplying of electronic information resources, the different methods of access, and their combined impact on collection development? If so, Collection Development is the book to help you get a handle on what’s out there! In no time at all, you’ll be able to select and integrate electronic resources into collection development programs at even the most traditional of libraries! In the process, you will learn alternative approaches for dealing with electronic databases, on-line access, and fiscal planning for the integration of the new information technologies into collection development. Collection Development offers useful strategies for dealing with electronic resources in terms of selection and evaluation, collection development policies, organizational structure, and budgeting. You also acquire important information on: Internet information resources accessible through Gophers and World Wide Web sites access vs. ownership issues serving the remote user at an extended campus site the relationship of selection to acquisitions managing a CD-Rom collection development process planning issues of cooperation, collaboration, and change pricing and planning issues and their impact on library budgets negotiating site licenses Librarians in collection development, academic librarians, and personnel in technology/authomation development will find Collection Development an indispensable tool for grappling with the demands and pressures of screening and choosing the most suitable information resources from the dynamic, even saturated, world of technology. The book’s insights and practical methodologies will help you integrate new on-line and electronic information resources into your program with relative ease.
Download or read book Library Journal written by Melvil Dewey and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
Book Synopsis Bibliography - U.S. Department of the Interior, Department Library by : United States. Department of the Interior. Library
Download or read book Bibliography - U.S. Department of the Interior, Department Library written by United States. Department of the Interior. Library and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Municipal Journal, Public Works Engineer Contractor's Guide by :
Download or read book Municipal Journal, Public Works Engineer Contractor's Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Printing machine (or, Companion to the library) [ed. by J.H.L. Hunt]. by :
Download or read book The Printing machine (or, Companion to the library) [ed. by J.H.L. Hunt]. written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Warner Library by : Charles Dudley Warner
Download or read book The Warner Library written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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