Bibliograph

Overdue, reckoning with the public library, Amanda Oliver

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Overdue, reckoning with the public library, Amanda Oliver

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Overdue

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1257021208

Responsibility statement

Amanda Oliver

Sub title

reckoning with the public library

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

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

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Reckoning with the public library

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