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The Politics of Professionalism: A Retro-Progressive Proposal for Librarianship

The Politics of Professionalism: A Retro-Progressive Proposal for Librarianship

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General ReferenceGeneral Education

ISBN10: 1936117045
ISBN13: 9781936117048
Publisher: Lib Juice Pr
Published: Dec 1 2009
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book presents a retro-progressive proposal for the education of librarians: the removal of library education from the jurisdiction of universities, which in recent decades have become increasingly corporatized, internalizing market-based concepts such as performance metrics and audit culture to the extent that, ideologically speaking, they are indistinguishable from corporations. The author presents a detailed, alternative model for library education, building upon Ralph Waldo Emerson's idea of a librarian as a professor of books.

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