Our Own Selves: More Meditations for LibrariansAmerican Library Association, 2005 - 224 páginas In Our Own Selves, Michael Gorman creates 100 new meditations specifically addressing the issues at the heart of the library profession. Reaffirming the value of librarianship and reintroducing the joys that make it unlike any other vocation, Gorman expands and follows up on his popular first collection of meditations. |
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... Truth 181 Right View and Right Understanding 183 Right - Directed Thought 185 Right Speech 187 Right Action 189 Right Livelihood 191 Right Effort 193 Proper Mindfulness 195 Right Concentration 197 The Golden Rule 199 Ten This and That ...
... Truth 181 Right View and Right Understanding 183 Right - Directed Thought 185 Right Speech 187 Right Action 189 Right Livelihood 191 Right Effort 193 Proper Mindfulness 195 Right Concentration 197 The Golden Rule 199 Ten This and That ...
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... truth is that the electronic age may be just a rerun of the manuscript age , and the print age may come to be seen as a 500 - year aberration — an island of fixity in an ocean of loss . I will value the records of humankind and work to ...
... truth is that the electronic age may be just a rerun of the manuscript age , and the print age may come to be seen as a 500 - year aberration — an island of fixity in an ocean of loss . I will value the records of humankind and work to ...
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... truth , what little I know of history was gained from , and inspired by , such books . Today it is the colored illustrated book covers that make them of in- terest rather than the didactic text and wooden dialogue . Those books had ...
... truth , what little I know of history was gained from , and inspired by , such books . Today it is the colored illustrated book covers that make them of in- terest rather than the didactic text and wooden dialogue . Those books had ...
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... should remind us that the urge to sacrifice freedom for " security " ( as defined by the powerful ) lies un- sleeping if , in the modern world , mostly restrained . For Milton , freedom and truth were the most important 16 Living Things.
... should remind us that the urge to sacrifice freedom for " security " ( as defined by the powerful ) lies un- sleeping if , in the modern world , mostly restrained . For Milton , freedom and truth were the most important 16 Living Things.
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... truth to be religious truth and freedom not extending to papists and infidels . ) Milton also believed that truth would always prevail in the long run — though to the modern eye , that run is some- times very long indeed . That is why ...
... truth to be religious truth and freedom not extending to papists and infidels . ) Milton also believed that truth would always prevail in the long run — though to the modern eye , that run is some- times very long indeed . That is why ...
Contenido
Through the Years | 113 |
1086 and All That | 115 |
Libraries and the Internet | 117 |
A Library Quarterly | 119 |
Another Library Quarterly | 122 |
Educating Librarians | 125 |
The Beginning of the Global Village | 127 |
On the Burning of Books | 129 |
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The School Library | 33 |
Trains and Boats and Planes | 35 |
Ancient and Modern | 37 |
The Southern California Library | 39 |
The Bodleian Library | 41 |
The Ventriloquist and the Boston Public Library | 43 |
People | 45 |
Colleagues in Schism | 47 |
The Life of the Mind | 49 |
Micromanage This | 51 |
L Stanley Jast | 53 |
The Library Character | 55 |
Whats in a Title? | 57 |
Librarians in History | 59 |
The Amherst Tales | 61 |
Vartan Gregorian | 63 |
A Good Gray Profession | 65 |
Values | 67 |
The Absurdities of Censorship | 69 |
Culture High and Low | 71 |
The Limits of Intellectual Freedom? | 73 |
Patriotic Acts? | 75 |
The Bibliosphere | 77 |
Rules of Conduct | 79 |
Looking Backward Living Forward | 81 |
The Greater Good | 83 |
Data Protection | 85 |
Civil Rights | 87 |
Library Cervices | 89 |
Many Tongues | 91 |
Libraries Unplugged? | 93 |
The Cataloguer | 95 |
The Belligerent Librarian | 97 |
Storehouse of the Human Record | 99 |
Information Commons | 101 |
The Human Factor | 103 |
What Is a Librarian? | 105 |
The Lapsed Cataloguer | 107 |
The Death of the Reference Book | 109 |
Then and Now | 111 |
The Core of Our Profession | 131 |
Bastille Day | 133 |
Technology | 135 |
The Allure of Paper | 137 |
The Dangerous Enticements of Predictions | 139 |
The Quest for Authenticity | 141 |
The Changing Freshman | 143 |
Unitask Me Please | 145 |
The NeverFading Image | 147 |
What Is a Document? | 149 |
Books of Photographs | 151 |
Filters | 153 |
Information Technology | 155 |
Practicalities | 157 |
FundRaising | 159 |
Maps | 161 |
Doing a Lot | 163 |
The Curse of PowerPoint | 165 |
A Virtual Alexandria? | 167 |
Animal Vegetable and Mineral | 169 |
The Little Engine That Sometimes Couldnt | 171 |
Black Swans | 173 |
No Child Left Unhurried | 175 |
Avert the Boots | 177 |
The Eightfold Path | 179 |
The Fourth Noble Truth | 181 |
Right View and Right Understanding | 183 |
RightDirected Thought | 185 |
Right Speech | 187 |
Right Action | 189 |
Right Livelihood | 191 |
Right Effort | 193 |
Proper Mindfulness | 195 |
Right Concentration | 197 |
The Golden Rule | 199 |
This and That | 201 |
Serendipitydoodah | 203 |
Bright Shiny and Evanescent | 205 |
Blogs | 207 |
Beyond the Boundaries | 209 |
Singing the Library | 211 |
Rocks of Ages | 213 |
The Peoples Information | 215 |
Music Librarians | 218 |
Hispanic Latino Chicano? | 220 |
Retirement | 223 |
Términos y frases comunes
American Library American Library Association archives believe bibliomania blog book burnings BookCrossing brarian brary Buddhist Bunny Watson California called cataloguing censorship central century collections concentration culture decades documents Eightfold Path electronic essay ethic fact filters Google heart Hispanic human record idea images individual intellectual interest Internet issue kind Krakatoa large number latter Lawrence Clark Powell learning librarianship library administrator Library Association Library Hotel library of Alexandria Library Quarterly library school library service library users library's lives look meditation Melvil Dewey memories mind modern never OCLC paper percent person preserve printed profession professional public library question radio read and view reader recorded knowledge reference books seek Shriekback society story things tion truth understand USA PATRIOT Act Vartan Gregorian words writing
Pasajes populares
Página 16 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 77 - the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
Página 18 - ... myself, the insidious mastery of song Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide. So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour With the great black piano appassionato. The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.
Página 79 - Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.
Página 75 - Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA Patriot Act) was enacted on October 26, 2001.
Página 99 - And for the second, certain it is, there is no vexation or anxiety of mind which resulteth from knowledge otherwise than merely by accident; for all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself...
Página 10 - But I read only the Bible.' Then you ought to teach others to read only the Bible, and by parity of reason, to hear only the Bible; but if so, you need preach no more.
Página 21 - For all books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time. Mark this distinction — it is not one of quality only. It is not merely the bad book that does not last, and the good one that does. It is a distinction of species.