Library Science, Information Science

Pulp Friction

Name: Pulp Friction
Author: Blaise Cronin
ISBN: 9780810845473

by Blaise Cronin

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Overview

In this highly provocative and frequently humorous collection of essays, Blaise Cronin scrutinizes the world of North American librarianship, highlighting its excesses and inconsistencies. From pornography and censorship to the idiocies of accreditation; from feminist scholarship to the rhetoric of the digital divide; from faculty status for librarians to developments in electronic scholarship; from information warfare to the role of the American Library Association this book is an engaging tour of "Libraryland." Pulp Friction is not only engaging and easy to read but it is the kind of book that one can dip in and out of or read in one sitting. Ideal for professional librarians, library science faculty, library users, and all those who care about the nature and role of the library in contemporary society.

About the Author, Blaise Cronin

Blaise Cronin is dean of the School of Library and Information Science and Rudy professor of information science at Indiana University/Bloomington.

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Slis News

[Cronin is] Libraryland's most eloquent critic...His range is comprehensive, and, true to form, Cronin considers no topic too sacred. Provocative, approaching adversarial, Cronin's reflections, accusations, and tirades will force readers to examine their own tendencies toward 'tergiversation' and 'pietistic clucking.'

Library Journal

For anyone unfamiliar with Cronin's views, as expressed in the pages of Library Journal and countless other professional publications, this is a welcome, thought-provoking, if not provocative, collection of 44 essays, most of which were written and/or published between 2000 and 2002. Whether he is crossing the great digital divide, abandoning library school accreditation, pulling out the stops on politically correct plagiarism, or savoring a bottle of Bordeaux with a favorite book, the former dean of the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University reveals a talent for distilling the developments in "Libraryland" and decanting them into those inconsistencies and paradoxes of librarianship as it exists in 21st-century America. This makes for both an enjoyable and engaging read-the title pun on Quentin Tarantino's film notwithstanding!-B. Susan Brown, Pamunkey Regional Lib., Hanover, VA Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.