Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
"An alternative proposal for the education of librarians, emphasizing general knowledge and intellectual rigor and discouraging careerism"--Provided by publisher.
Table of Contents
1. Fateful Choices -- 2. Professionalism, Achievement, and the Quantified University -- 3. Reconsidering Library Professionalism -- 4. The Ideology of Professionalism -- 5. Interrogating the Socio-Cultural Premises of Education for Librarianship -- 6. The Professionalization of Librarianship and the Professionalization of Eating.