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   Peter Binkley (pbinkley@code4lib.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 13:42:37 JST Peter Binkley

   Jesse Shera, “The College Library of the Future,” 1936. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25688791 - "Librarians have their faults, many of them, but in a mad academic world, blindly seeking distinction through athletic glory, led by fascist minded administrators who have completely forgotten the meaning of education, there seems to be little hope for any very important role for the librarian. This is not said, however, to excuse the librarian for his inactivity-- ... 1/2

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     • John Mark Ockerbloom

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     Some great quotations in this!
     "holocaust of Alexandria.": (1936)

     "In a day when a drugstore demagogue can command a legislative investigation into alleged “subversive activities” in one of our great institutions of learning, it is not absurd to fear that some power crazed dictator of the future could repeat the holocaust of Alexandria."

     <look at next>

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     John Mark Ockerbloom (jmarkockerbloom@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 13:42:36 JST John Mark Ockerbloom

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     @pbinkley Thanks for this! This article is in the public domain (in the US at least). Here's a link to a non-paywalled scan: https://archive.org/details/sim_american-library-assoc-ala-bulletin_1936-06_30_6/page/495/mode/1up

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     • John Mark Ockerbloom

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     microfilm (it could have been great):

     "For as the gift of Gutenberg brought many books within the reach of many men, so any book may come to any library through the medium of the microphotograph."

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     "We may be rudely awakened some morning with the realization that we are the hapless and unwilling guardians of the propaganda of a fascist régime. Here, then, is the challenge that the future flings to the college librarians of today: that they make the fullest use of technical advances placed within their hands; that they unite themselves more firmly in codperative undertakings; ...

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     "... that they study more intensively and learn to measure more accurately the results of their work; that they band themselves together to preserve their rightful heritage of academic freedom against the ever growing forces that menace it so severely ; and that to achieve greater unanimity of action they formulate an adequate philosophy of their profession which will integrate their activities with the academic microcosm, ...

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     "giving direction to their efforts. And having done these things, be not content with the achievement thereof, but in this age of social Sturm und Drang be ever watchful to keep an eye to the future— an ear to the ground."

     ! Rock and Roll. !

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     • John Mark Ockerbloom

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     fyi: here is the article about German Libraries from 1935: https://archive.org/details/libraryjournal60/page/n27/mode/1up?q=%22The+Annual+Meeting+of+the+german+Librarians+in+Tubingen.%22