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I nostri valori, rivisti

La biblioteconomia in un mondo in trasformazione
  • Michael Gorman,
  • Edited by:
  • Mauro Guerrini,

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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Mauro Guerrini

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-1941-4575

Michael Gorman, former director of library services at the Henry Madden Library of California State University in Fresno, was president of the American Library Association in 2005 and 2006; he was the editor of the second edition of the Anglo-American Cataloguing rules (AACR2, 1978) and of their subsequent revision (AACR2R, 1988). He is the author of several books, including I nostri valori (2000), and won the ALA Highsmith Award in 2001 for the best work on Library Science; he was awarded several prizes, including the Margaret Mann Citation in 1979 and the Melvil Dewey Medal in 1992.
Mauro Guerrini teaches Library Science at the University of Florence, where he coordinates the Master in Cataloguing. He has been chairman of several international conferences, including: FRBR, Electronic resources, Authority control and Linked data. He is former President of the AIB, of the IFLA 2009 Milan Committee and of the MiBACT Scientific Technical Committee; he is also a member of the IFLA commissions, director of «JLIS.it» and editor of the Italian translation of ISBD and RDA. He is the author of several books and essays, including Introduzione a FRBR, Biblioteconomia. Guida classificata, La biblioteca spiegata agli studenti universitari.
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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

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© 2018 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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Firenze University Press

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10.36253/978-88-6453-725-2

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978-88-6453-722-1

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978-88-6453-725-2

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978-88-6453-724-5

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Studi e saggi

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2704-6478

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2704-5919

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