Author : David Shavit
Release : 1986-10-16
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis The Politics of Public Librarianship by : David Shavit
Download or read book The Politics of Public Librarianship written by David Shavit. This book was released on 1986-10-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public librarians do not usually see themselves as politicians. However, as decision-makers in an institutional setting, affected by a variety of pressures and conflicting interests, they are involved in politics in both the broad and narrow sense. Moreover, recent developments in the public library system have brought the librarian directly into the political sphere. Professor Shavit's study, the first major work on the subject in over 35 years, fills a major gap in scholarship on the public library in the political process and provides a detailed survey of the political context in which the modern library functions.