A library romantic's reply to richard danner

James Donovan

doi:10.1080/02703190802694856

A library romantic's reply to richard danner

James Donovan

Rosenberg College of Law

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Abstract

In this brief response to Richard A. Danner's "Skating with Donovan: Thoughts on Librarianship as a Profession," the author finds new reasons to doubt the merits of a "weak" model of librarianship that overemphasizes user demands at the expense of professional ethical commitments to collect, organize, and preserve.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	255-262
Number of pages	8
Journal	Legal Reference Services Quarterly
Volume	27
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/02703190802694856
State	Published - 2008

Keywords

Category prototypes
Library profession
Tenure

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Library and Information Sciences
Law

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