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Overdue : reckoning with the public library / Amanda Oliver.
When Oliver began work as a school librarian she felt qualified for the job. What she learned was that librarians are expected to serve as mediators and mental-health-crisis-support professionals, customer service reps and administrators of overdose treatment, fierce loyalists to institutionalized mythology and enforced silence, and arms of state surveillance. Here she highlights the national problems that have existed in libraries since they were founded: racism, segregation, and economic oppression. Libraries may not save us, but Oliver helps us imaging what might be possible if we stop expecting them to.
Record details
- ISBN: 1641605316
- ISBN: 9781641605311
- Physical Description: xiv, 210 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Chicago : Chicago Review Press, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-201) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Becoming. Northwest one ; Omnium lux civium ; So, what do you do? ; The library from "l" -- Empathy. Can you help me? ; Cold mercy ; For whom ; Burning out -- Reckoning. An education ; Libraries will (not) save us ; Multiphrenia ; The future of the American public library. |
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| Subject: | Oliver, Amanda (Librarian) Public librarians > Biography. Public libraries > Political aspects. Public libraries > Social aspects. Public libraries > United States. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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| Baker County Library | 027.473 .O48o 2022 (Text) | 37814003675684 | NON-FICTION - NEW | Available | - |
