Juris Dilevko

Broschiertes Buch

The Politics of Professionalism

A Retro-Progressive Proposal for Librarianship

Beschreibung

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."

Autor

Juris Dilevko is a retired associate professor from the University of Toronto. In addition to his books about librarianship, his writings have appeared in American Studies, Journal of Information Ethics, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Library Quarterly, and Reference & User Services Quarterly, among other publications.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Library Juice Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781936117048
• ISBN-10: 1936117045
• Artikelnr.: 27964853