Overdue : reckoning with the public library / Amanda Oliver.
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 libraries 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.--
Record details
- ISBN: 9781641605311
- ISBN: 1641605316
- Physical Description: xiv, 210 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Chicago, IL : Chicago Review Press, ©2022.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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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Subject: | Oliver, Amanda. Public librarians > Biography. Public libraries > Political aspects. Public libraries > Social aspects. Public libraries > United States. |
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Albright Memorial Library | 027.4 OLIVER (Text) | 50686016165164 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Emmaus Public Library | 027.4 OLIV (Text) | 36446002066390 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Exeter Community Library | 027.473 OLI (Text) | 33249025330931 | Non-fiction | Available | - |
Gettysburg Library | 027.4 OLIVER (Text) | 35740635826373 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
Hamburg Public Library | FC 027.473 OLI BCPL FLOATING COLLECTION (Text) | 33249025307921 | Non-fiction | Available | - |
Huntingdon County Library | NF 027.4 OLI (Text) | 30298100596463 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
Martin Library | Adults 027.4 OLI Life Times (Text) | 33454005946348 | 2nd Floor | Available | - |
Paul Smith Library of Southern York County | Adults 027.4 OLI Nonfiction (Text) | 34318001203070 | Adult Area | Checked Out | 04/02/2024 |
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