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Overdue : reckoning with the public library / Amanda Oliver.

Oliver, Amanda, (author.).

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 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.
Subject: Oliver, Amanda.
Public librarians > Biography.
Public libraries > Political aspects.
Public libraries > Social aspects.
Public libraries > United States.

Available copies

  • 16 of 17 copies available at SPARK Libraries. (Show)

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  • 2 current holds with 17 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
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
RACC Z716.4 .O455 2022 (Text) 33624024960781 Books Available -
Reading Public Library RPL - Main 027.473 Oli (Text) 33223009049643 Non-fiction Available -


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