The Politics of Professionalism: A Retro-Progressive Proposal for Librarianship
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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The Politics of Professionalism: A Retro-Progressive Proposal for Librarianship
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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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781936117048 |
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| Publisher: | Library Juice Press |
| Publication date: | 12/01/2009 |
| Pages: | 242 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.55(d) |
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