The Politics of Professionalism: A Retro-Progressive Proposal for Librarianship (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781936117048)

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."

Author: Juris Dilevko
ISBN-10: 1936117045
ISBN-13: 9781936117048
Publisher: Library Juice Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2009
Pages: 242
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 294