Our Enduring Values Revisited : Librarianship in an Ever-Changing World.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (255 pages)
OUR ENDURING VALUES REVISITED: LIBRARIANSHIP IN AN EVER-CHANGING WORLD -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE: THE WORLD TURNED RIGHT SIDE UP? -- CHAPTER 1: VALUES -- CHAPTER 2: HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY -- CHAPTER 3: THE VALUE OF LIBRARIES -- CHAPTER 4: THE LIBRARY AS PLACE -- CHAPTER 5: STEWARDSHIP -- CHAPTER 6: SERVICE -- CHAPTER 7: INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM -- CHAPTER 8: RATIONALISM -- CHAPTER 9: LITERACY AND LEARNING -- CHAPTER 10: EQUITY OF ACCESS -- CHAPTER 11: PRIVACY -- CHAPTER 12: DEMOCRACY -- CHAPTER 13: THE GREATER GOOD -- CHAPTER 14: KEEPING FAITH -- INDEX.
In this stirring manifesto, public intellectual, librarian, and philosopher Gorman addresses head on the "existential panic" among library professionals caused by the radical shift in how libraries are viewed.
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Librarians -- Effect of technological innovations on -- United States. Librarians -- Professional ethics -- United States. Libraries -- Aims and objectives -- United States. Library science -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.