
Library Juice Concentrate.
Title:
Library Juice Concentrate.
Author:
Litwin, Rory.
ISBN:
9781936117284
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (261 pages)
Contents:
Edited by Rory Litwin -- Contents -- Acknowlegments -- Preface -- Editor's Introduction -- Section One: Foundation Building -- The Library Juice Manifesto -- Neutrality, Objectivity, and the Political Center -- Classic and Neo-Information -- Why Our Relevance Lies in Not Being "Information Professionals" -- Questioning the Techie Mission -- Print Virtue and the Ontology of the Bo-ring -- Aspects of a Humanist Approach to Librarianship... A Contribution to a Philosophical Foundation -- Section Two: Librarianship: Professional Issues -- Critical Discussion of the Better Salaries Initiative of Mitch Freedman's ALA Presidency -- Undone by Flattery -- On Google's Monetization of Libraries -- The Central Problem of Library 2.0: Privacy -- Rory Litwin interviews Barbara Tillett -- Section Three: Intellectual Freedom and Media Independence -- Four Popular Errors About Free Speech ... An Attack on Complacency and Dissociation -- The Invisibility of the Alternative Media -- Some Alternative Press History -- Information-Seeking During Wartime: Reconsidering the Role of the Library in Increasing User Self-Sufficiency -- Section Four: Librarians: Culture and Identity -- A Librarian's Confession -- A Critique of Anarchist Librarianship -- Interview with Jessamyn West -- Section Five: Cuba -- Rhonda L. Neugebauer Reports on her March, 2000 Trip to Cuba -- Ann Sparanese's Paper on Cuba for the IRC Latin America and Caribbean Subcommittee -- The Status of Gays in Cuba: Myth and Reality -- Section Six: Various and Sundry Readings -- Library Limericks -- Some Meditations on Those "Amusing Searches" -- Selected Quotes for the Week -- Suggested Paper Topics -- Some Books for Progressive Librarians -- About the Contributors -- About Rory Litwin -- Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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