The Gospel of Scholarship: Pierce Butler and a Critique of American Librarianship

by John V. Richardson Jr.

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Pierce Butler is considered one of library science's greatest intellects. His ideological conflicts with Douglas Waples, social scientist par excellence, became legandary in the 1940s. A humanist himself, Butler initially supported the introduction of social science methods in his seminal Introduction to Library Science (1933), which is reprinted in this volume. Yet he recanted this position late in life, and his critique of American librarianship...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:081082499X

ISBN13:9780810824997

Release Date:April 1992

Publisher:Scarecrow Press

Length:366 Pages

Weight:1.24 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.6" x 8.9"

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