Overdue reckoning with the public library

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 m...

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Main Author: Oliver, Amanda (Librarian) (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Chicago Review Press, [2022].
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100 1 |a Oliver, Amanda  |c (Librarian),  |e author. 
245 1 0 |a Overdue :  |b reckoning with the public library /  |c Amanda Oliver. 
246 3 0 |a Reckoning with the public library 
264 1 |a Chicago :  |b Chicago Review Press,  |c [2022]. 
264 4 |c Ã2022 
300 |a xiv, 210 pages ;  |c 24 cm 
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337 |a unmediated  |b n  |2 rdamedia 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
520 |a 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 library 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. -- adapted from jacket. 
600 1 0 |a Oliver, Amanda  |c (Librarian) 
650 0 |a Public librarians  |v Biography. 
650 0 |a Public libraries  |x Political aspects. 
650 0 |a Public libraries  |x Social aspects. 
650 0 |a Public libraries  |z United States. 
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