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...
| Main Author: | Oliver, Amanda (Librarian) (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
Chicago Review Press,
[2022].
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Table of Contents:
- 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.