Our Own Selves : More Meditations For Librarians

Introduction xi Acknowledgments xiii Reading and Books Head, Heart, and Hand 3(2) The Fragile Human Record 5(2) Word Pictures 7(1) Choice of Reading 8(2) Another ``Virtual Library 10(2) Living with Bibliomania 12(2) Alone and Never Alone 14(2) Living Things 16(2) The Power of Children's Books 18(2) Four Centuries of Information Overload 20(5) Places The Quincy Library Group 25(2) Old Library, New Museum 27(2) The Library Hotel 29(2) Frank's Library 31(2) The School Library 33(2) Trains and Boats and Planes 35(2) Ancient and Modern 37(2) The Southern California Library 39(2) The Bodleian Library 41(2) The Ventriloquist and the Boston Public Library 43(4) People Colleagues in Schism 47(2) The Life of the Mind 49(2) Micromanage This! 51(2) L. Stanley Jast 53(2) The Library ``Character'' 55(2) What's in a Title? 57(2) Librarians in History 59(2) ``The Amherst Tales'' 61(2) Vartan Gregorian 63(2) A Good Gray Profession 65(4) Values The Absurdities of Censorship 69(2) Culture, High and Low 71(2) The Limits of Intellectual Freedom? 73(2) Patriotic Acts? 75(2) The Bibliosphere 77(2) Rules of Conduct 79(2) Looking Backward, Living Forward 81(2) The Greater Good 83(2) Data Protection 85(2) Civil Rights 87(4) Library Services Many Tongues 91(2) Libraries Unplugged? 93(2) The Cataloguer 95(2) The Belligerent Librarian 97(2) Storehouse of the Human Record 99(2) Information Commons 101(2) The Human Factor 103(2) What Is a Librarian? 105(2) The Lapsed Cataloguer 107(2) The Death of the Reference Book 109(4) Then and Now Through the Years 113(2) 1086 and All That 115(2) Libraries and the Internet 117(2) A Library Quarterly 119(3) Another Library Quarterly 122(3) Educating Librarians 125(2) The Beginning of the Global Village 127(2) On the Burning of Books 129(2) The Core of Our Profession 131(2) Bastille Day 133(4) Technology The Allure of Paper 137(2) The Dangerous Enticements of Predictions 139(2) The Quest for Authenticity 141(2) The Changing Freshman 143(2) Unitask Me . . . Please! 145(2) The Never-Fading Image 147(2) What Is a Document? 149(2) Books of Photographs 151(2) Filters 153(2) Information Technology 155(4) Practicalities Fund-Raising 159(2) Maps 161(2) Doing a Lot 163(2) The Curse of PowerPoint 165(2) A Virtual Alexandria? 167(2) Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral 169(2) The Little Engine That Sometimes Couldn't 171(2) Black Swans 173(2) No Child Left Unhurried 175(2) Avert the Boots! 177(4) The Eightfold Path The Fourth Noble Truth 181(2) Right View and Right Understanding 183(2) Right-Directed Thought 185(2) Right Speech 187(2) Right Action 189(2) Right Livelihood 191(2) Right Effort 193(2) Proper Mindfulness 195(2) Right Concentration 197(2) The Golden Rule 199(4) This and That Serendipity-doo-dah 203(2) Bright, Shiny, and Evanescent 205(2) Blogs 207(2) Beyond the Boundaries 209(2) Singing the Library 211(2) Rocks of Ages 213(2) The People's Information 215(3) Music Librarians 218(2) Hispanic, Latino, Chicano? 220(3) Retirement 223