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LibrarianShipwreck is a resource, soapbox, forum, and gutter for those interested in the future of librarianship. Amongst our interests are libraries, archives, activism, radical librarianship, history, technology, cats, sweater vests, and other fascinating things. We hope to rile you up.
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Radical librarianship and sweater vests? Goodness! That’s a mixture I have to see!
Radical librarianship and CATS???!! Goodness! That’s a mixture i have to see!
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I’m happy to see this blog but seriously annoyed that it is anonymous. You should take responsibility for what you write!!
Pleased to meet you. You are most welcome to visit my blog whenever you get the chance. 🙂
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So, it happened. This summer our “librarian” at the private college prep school I work at decided to convert the library into a “learning commons”. Everything worth knowing is on the internet, students aren’t checking out books, so why not get rid of them in favor of “collaborative spaces”….coffee shop to be added soon…
My God, when did we decide to follow the students? When did we decide that since they don’t know how to use books, that we don’t need the printed word anymore? “Collaboration” is a stupid skill promoted from Silicon Valley–it’s meaningless and worthless in the development of a thinking human. Hell, I’ll go Godwin here–we’re on the road to producing more Eichmanns whose evil will be banal because they never learned how to think.
Hannah Arendt, in her lectures on moral philosophy (collected in Responsibility and Judgment) says: “Thinking and remembering is the human way of striking roots, of taking one’s place in the world into which we all arrive as strangers. What we usually call a person or a personality, as distinguished from a mere human being or a nobody, actually grows out of this root-striking process of thinking.”
We’re developing a generation of rootless nobodies…