Our Own Selves: More Meditations for LibrariansIn 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. |
Contents
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Living with Bibliomania | 12 |
Alone and Never Alone | 14 |
Living Things | 16 |
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 |
The Power of Childrens Books | 18 |
Four Centuries of Information Overload | 20 |
Places | 23 |
The Quincy Library Group | 25 |
Old Library New Museum | 27 |
The Library Hotel | 29 |
Franks Library | 31 |
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 |
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Popular passages
Page 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.