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Libraries in the age of mediocrity
Title:
Libraries in the age of mediocrity
Author:
Lee, Earl, 1954-2015.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [1998]

©1998
Physical Description:
vii, 151 pages ; 23 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Language:
English
Contents:
A visit to Oz; or, "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!": Case studies in the political economy of library automation -- Libraries, libertarianism and the state -- Censorship and community standards -- Library automation in the age of mediocrity -- The postmodern library; or Freud in the garden of good and evil -- Target ALA: The culture war moves to the library -- Freethought materials in libraries -- Women's studies in the university -- Intellectual freedom vs. intellectual property -- Outsourcing the public library: The "chains" of librarianship -- The ongoing corruption of the arts -- Conclusion: Censorship into the millennium.
ISBN:
9780786405480
Format :
Book