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Article: Brief lives, obscure motives?(Dictionary of American Library Biography. Second Supplement)(Book Review)
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- The Australian Library Journal
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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Dictionary of American library biography. Second supplement. Ed. by Donald G Davis, Jr. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2003. 250p US$60.00 hard ISBN 1563088681 (available from DA Information Services)
IN AN AGE WHEN STUDENTS TAKING FIRST DEGREES IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION STUDIES readily accept the fallacious assertion from some writers (who should know better) that pre-internet librarians were merely book keepers, there is even more need for our profession to record its own history. Although library history has (like the history of other professional services) largely disappeared from current curricula, and information history has hardly begun to be explored, ...