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Overdue : reckoning with the public library
- Title
- Overdue : reckoning with the public library / Amanda Oliver.
- Author
- Oliver, Amanda (Librarian)
- Publication
- Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2022]
- ©2022
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | Z731 .O45 2022 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 210 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- Overdue
- Reckoning with the public library
- Subject
- Oliver, Amanda (Librarian)
- Public libraries > United States
- Public libraries > Political aspects > United States
- Public libraries > Social aspects > United States
- Public librarians > United States > Biography
- Public librarians > Biography
- Public libraries > Social aspects
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Public librarians
- Public libraries
- Public libraries > Political aspects
- Public libraries > Social aspects
- Librarians > Biography
- Public libraries > Political aspects
- Public libraries
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Biography
- Informational works
- Biographies
- Informational works.
- Biographies.
- Documents d'information.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- part I. Becoming: Northwest One ; Omnium lux civium ; So, what do you do? ; The library from "L" -- part II. Empathy: Can you help me? ; Cold mercy ; For whom ; Burning out -- part III. Reckoning: An education ; Libraries will (not) save us ; Multiphrenia ; The future of the American public library.
- ISBN
- 9781641605311
- 1641605316
- 9781641605342 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781641605335 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781641605328 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2021948373
- OCLC
- on1257021208
- 1257021208
- SCSB-14123160
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library