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

Juris Dilevko
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Description: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."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Politics of Professionalism: A Retro-Progressive Proposal for Librarianship. To get started finding The Politics of Professionalism: A Retro-Progressive Proposal for Librarianship, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
242
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PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Library Juice Press
Release
2009
ISBN
1936117045

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

Juris Dilevko
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Description: 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."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Politics of Professionalism: A Retro-Progressive Proposal for Librarianship. To get started finding The Politics of Professionalism: A Retro-Progressive Proposal for Librarianship, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
242
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Library Juice Press
Release
2009
ISBN
1936117045

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