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Values of Steel in 30 Days [and] Of the People, for the People: Public Libraries Serve Democracy [and] Who Gets To Use What (And How All That Is Changing)[and] Sex-and-Violence Ratings: What's in Them for Libraries? [and] Can Library Service Survive in a Sea of Change?

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Title: Values of Steel in 30 Days [and] Of the People, for the People: Public Libraries Serve Democracy [and] Who Gets To Use What (And How All That Is Changing)[and] Sex-and-Violence Ratings: What's in Them for Libraries? [and] Can Library Service Survive in a Sea of Change?
Language: English
Authors: Gorman, Michael, Tyckoson, David A., Jackson, Mary E., Schmidt, C. James, Baker, Betsy
Source: American Libraries. Apr 2000 31(4):39-49.
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Page Count: 11
Publication Date: 2000
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Descriptors: Access to Information, Change, Democracy, Intellectual Freedom, Intellectual Property, Interlibrary Loans, Library Circulation, Library Collection Development, Library Science, Library Services, Public Libraries, Values
Laws, Policies and Program Identifiers: Equal Access
ISSN: 0002-9769
Abstract: These articles address the core values of librarianship, focusing on democracy and public libraries; equity of access to information, including building collections, circulation policies, interlibrary loan, and intellectual property and licensing; intellectual freedom, including rating systems for various media; and library service in the light of change. (LRW)
Entry Date: 2001
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  Value: <anid>AN0002981747;AML01APR.00;2000May01.17:31;v4.1</anid> <jsection id="AN0002981747-1"> Core Values</jsection> <et id="AN0002981747-2">Message from This Month's Guest Editor</et> <title id="AN0002981747-3">VALUES OF STEEL IN 30 DAYS </title> <p>Values are big in this time of change and prosperity. From the weary political arguments about "character" and "family values" (as if single, childless people have no claim to values) to an emphasis on ethics courses in law schools to our very own Congress on Professional Education and its Task Force on Values, there is something in the air; something that speaks to a search for meaning. Odd, is it not, that we heard almost none of this less than a decade ago, when the country was mired in deficits and recession and library budgets were being slashed? We need values and meaning to sustain us in hard times, but in comfortable times we only talk about them. </p> <p>However, tough times will come again, and today's discussions on values may well lead to something that will sustain us in needier periods. Looked at another way, these are tough times--not economically but because some feel our profession is doomed or at least teetering on the edge of irrelevance. What does it profit a librarian to have money for collections and services but no faith in their value and future? </p> <hd id="AN0002981747-4"> A cofessed co-conspirator </hd> <p>I must confess here that I am a willing participant in the Great Values Trend in that I have written a book on the topic, to be published by ALA Editions in time for the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. It's called Our Enduring Values. (I wanted a snappy, bestsellerish title like How Values Helped Me to Sell $1 Million in Real Estate or Harry Potter Taught Me Everything I Know about Values, but you know those fuddy-duddies at ALA!) </p> <p>Writing a book is a great way to learn. The first thing I learned was that I did not know what a "value" is. The more I consulted dictionaries and encyclopedias and read books of philosophy, management, education, etc., the more slippery the word became. Unless you, like the "family values" crowd, derive your values from a religious source and believe them to be applicable in all cases (even in matters far from religion such as tax policy and the teaching of reading), you will come slap up against this problem of definition. Values do not occur in nature; nor can they be discovered from external sources. They are the products of human minds--shared beliefs motivated by interest and self-interest. They are neither universal nor eternal, but they must appeal to enough people with a common interest and common goals; and when they change, they must change in an evolutionary manner if they are to qualify as values. </p> <p>In preparing my book, I read many articles and books written by librarians over many years. Most did not deal directly with the topic of library values. In fact, many library writings are characterized by a robust practicality evocative more of rolled-up sleeves than philosophical concerns. In its way, this is admirable; but there is room in any profession for speculation and dreaming and the writings of those who look beyond day-to-day concerns. From a small but classy field, I chose four writers who would provide me with the basis of a structure for my delineation of library values. They were S. R. Ranganathan (the author of The Five Laws of Library Science), Jesse Shera, Samuel Rothstein, and Lee Finks (the latter the author of an April 1989 American Libraries article on library values to which I shall always be indebted). </p> <p>Studying their writings led me to formulate the following list of central values of librarianship. </p> <hd id="AN0002981747-5"> • Stewardship--by which I mean both preserving the human record and furthering our profession by the reform of library education. </hd> <hd id="AN0002981747-6"> • Service--ensuring that all our policies and procedures and their assessment are animated by the ethic of service to individuals, communities, society, and posterity. </hd> <hd id="AN0002981747-7"> • Intellectual freedom--essentially, maintaining a commitment to the idea that all people in a free society should be able to read and see whatever they wish. </hd> <hd id="AN0002981747-8"> • Rationalism--applying the scientific method to all library procedures and programs. </hd> <hd id="AN0002981747-9"> • Literacy and learningmencouraging literacy, the love of learning, and lifelong sustained reading by making the library a focus of literacy teaching. </hd> <hd id="AN0002981747-10"> • Equity of access to recorded knowledge and information-ensuring that all library resources and programs are made accessible to all people by overcoming technological and monetary barriers to access. </hd> <hd id="AN0002981747-11"> • Privacy--ensuring the confidentiality of library records and overcoming technological invasions of library use. </hd> <hd id="AN0002981747-12"> • Democracy-playing our part in maintaining the values of a democratic society, participating in the educational process to ensure the educated citizenry that is vital to democracy, and employing democracy in library management. </hd> <p>As guest editor of this issue, I invited four colleagues and friends to write on some aspect of one of these eight values. I hope you enjoy their fine articles. </p> <p>PHOTO (COLOR): Michael Gorman </p> <aug> <p>By Michael Gorman, is dean of library services ar California State University/Fresno </p> </aug>
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