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The Gospel of Scholarship. Pierce Butler and a Critique of American Librarianship.
Richardson, John V., Jr.; Butler, Pierce
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Description for The Gospel of Scholarship. Pierce Butler and a Critique of American Librarianship.
Hardback. Pierce Butler is considered one of library science's greatest intellects. With appendixes including a complete list of Butler's publications, course offerings, graduate students, and selected sermons. Num Pages: 366 pages, Plans, transparencies, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: GL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 188 x 149 x 22. Weight in Grams: 567.
Pierce Butler is considered one of library science's greatest intellects. His ideological conflicts with Douglas Waples, social scientist par excellence, became legandary in the 1940s. A humanist himself, Butler initially supported the introduction of social science methods in his seminal Introduction to Library Science (1933), which is reprinted in this volume. Yet he recanted this position late in life, and his critique of American librarianship was that it was becoming scientistic. He argued for something more—a deeper, more spiritual librarianship. In this biography, Richardson provides a well-documented narrative of Butler's life, with appendixes including a complete list of Butler's publications, ... Read more
Pierce Butler is considered one of library science's greatest intellects. His ideological conflicts with Douglas Waples, social scientist par excellence, became legandary in the 1940s. A humanist himself, Butler initially supported the introduction of social science methods in his seminal Introduction to Library Science (1933), which is reprinted in this volume. Yet he recanted this position late in life, and his critique of American librarianship was that it was becoming scientistic. He argued for something more—a deeper, more spiritual librarianship. In this biography, Richardson provides a well-documented narrative of Butler's life, with appendixes including a complete list of Butler's publications, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
Number of Pages
366
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810824997
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V9780810824997
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About Richardson, John V., Jr.; Butler, Pierce
John V. Richardson, Jr. (Ph.D., Indiana University) teaches at the Graduate School of Library & Information Science, UCLA. He has published the well-received Spirit of Inquiry (1982) and has won numerous awards, including a Newberry Library Fellowship, an NEH grant, several ALISE research awards or grants, and the 1990 Justin Winsor Award for Excellence in Library History Research.
Reviews for The Gospel of Scholarship. Pierce Butler and a Critique of American Librarianship.
...more than just about Butler and the history of book collecting and library education...contributes to the intellectual history of the field.
Library Journal
...a model of scholarly research and flawless citation practice...a view of 'deep librarianship' that should be discussed broadly at all levels of the profession.
Journal of Academic Librarianship
...a well-documented narrative of Butler's ... Read more
Library Journal
...a model of scholarly research and flawless citation practice...a view of 'deep librarianship' that should be discussed broadly at all levels of the profession.
Journal of Academic Librarianship
...a well-documented narrative of Butler's ... Read more