I nostri valori, rivisti is the profound reinterpretation, fifteen years after its first edition, of I nostri valori, which highly influenced the discussion on the present and future of libraries and librarians. The suggested professional values are: management skills, service, intellectual freedom, rationality, literacy and learning, equity of access to knowledge and information, privacy, democracy and, compared to the first edition, Michael Gorman adds the superior good. This is therefore an axiology of the library and even more than that, a defence of the library’s value, but also a treatise on the library and the librarians advocacy, of a system and a profession which must continually evolve to reaffirm and consolidate their centrality in the social and cultural context.
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Book Title
I nostri valori, rivisti
Book Subtitle
La biblioteconomia in un mondo in trasformazione
Editors
Mauro Guerrini
Authors
Michael Gorman
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
256
Publication Year
2018
Copyright Information
© 2018 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-725-2
ISBN Print
978-88-6453-722-1
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6453-725-2
eISBN (epub)
978-88-6453-724-5
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-095-3
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919