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Author Lee, Earl, 1954-2015.

Title Libraries in the age of mediocrity / by Earl Lee.

Imprint Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1998.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  025.213 L511l c.2  ---  Available
 Axe Kansas Collection  025.213 L511l    ---  Lib Use Only
Description vii, 151 pages ; 23 cm.
Series PSU Faculty or Staff Author ; 1987-2015.
Note Lee (1987-2015), PSU Faculty or Staff Author.
Includes index.
Contents A visit to Oz; or, "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!": Case studies in the political economy of library automation -- Libraries, libertarianism and the state -- Censorship and community standards -- Library automation in the age of mediocrity -- The postmodern library; or Freud in the garden of good and evil -- Target ALA: The culture war moves to the library -- Freethought materials in libraries -- Women's studies in the university -- Intellectual freedom vs. intellectual property -- Outsourcing the public library: The "chains" of librarianship -- The ongoing corruption of the arts -- Conclusion: Censorship into the millennium.
Subject Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Drug use
Library science.
Libraries -- Censorship.
Libraries -- Automation.
Contracting out.
Intellectual property.
Postmodernism -- Social aspects.
Libertarianism -- Social aspects.
Free thought -- Censorship.
ISBN 0786405481 (sewn softcover : alk. paper)

 
    
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