Overview

In this highly provocative and frequently humorous collection of essays, Blaise Cronin scrutinizes the world of North American librarianship, highlighting its excesses and inconsistencies. From pornography and censorship to the idiocies of accreditation; from feminist scholarship to the rhetoric of the digital divide; from faculty status for librarians to developments in electronic scholarship; from information warfare to the role of the American Library Association this book is an engaging tour of Libraryland.

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[Cronin is] Libraryland's most eloquent critic...His range is comprehensive, and, true to form, Cronin considers no topic too sacred. Provocative, approaching adversarial, Cronin's reflections, accusations, and tirades will force readers to examine their own tendencies toward 'tergiversation' and 'pietistic clucking.' Slis News

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Blaise Cronin is dean of the School of Library and Information Science and Rudy professor of information science at Indiana University/Bloomington.

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