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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Página x
... the Boundaries 209 Singing the Library 211 Rocks of Ages 213 The People's Information 215 Music Librarians 218 Hispanic , Latino , Chicano ? 220 Retirement 223 Introduction I have had the privilege of writing on librarianship.
... the Boundaries 209 Singing the Library 211 Rocks of Ages 213 The People's Information 215 Music Librarians 218 Hispanic , Latino , Chicano ? 220 Retirement 223 Introduction I have had the privilege of writing on librarianship.
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... writer and reader gain ; though the former may never know of that gain , he or she is nonetheless enriched . One of the pleas- ures of writing a book such as this is exploring every pos- sible avenue in search of likely topics . This ...
... writer and reader gain ; though the former may never know of that gain , he or she is nonetheless enriched . One of the pleas- ures of writing a book such as this is exploring every pos- sible avenue in search of likely topics . This ...
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... writer can receive a scrupulous reader with a critical in- telligence . I am grateful to my assistants , Bernie Griffith and Susan Mangini , for their help and many kindnesses . I am in- debted to the many writers ( of books , articles ...
... writer can receive a scrupulous reader with a critical in- telligence . I am grateful to my assistants , Bernie Griffith and Susan Mangini , for their help and many kindnesses . I am in- debted to the many writers ( of books , articles ...
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... writing , I am always in danger of entering a verbal hall of mirrors — a place of unbearable self - consciousness in which words like " vivid , " " easily , " " difficult , " and " richness " ( all used in this paragraph ) leap off the ...
... writing , I am always in danger of entering a verbal hall of mirrors — a place of unbearable self - consciousness in which words like " vivid , " " easily , " " difficult , " and " richness " ( all used in this paragraph ) leap off the ...
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... writer . For the book that " galva- nized " him and made him decide to be a writer , however , Wolfe turned to an entirely different writer in a different genre . That book was Honey Bear by Dixie Willson , illustrated by Maginel Wright ...
... writer . For the book that " galva- nized " him and made him decide to be a writer , however , Wolfe turned to an entirely different writer in a different genre . That book was Honey Bear by Dixie Willson , illustrated by Maginel Wright ...
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.