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This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

by Marilyn Johnson

Libraries in the digital age

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Libraries in the digital age

Marilyn Johnson examines how librarians and other information professionals work across a landscape of books, digital media, and expanding stores of information. The book connects their practical role in helping people navigate technology with broader questions about libraries, free speech, and open access. Its portraits range from outspoken online voices to librarians constrained by government scrutiny, placing everyday assistance alongside the institutional pressures surrounding information. The subject is the changing work of library professionals and the values they bring to it—not simply the fate of library buildings or print collections.

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  • Readers interested in libraries and the changing role of librarians
  • Readers curious about information access, technology, and free speech
  • Library and information science students or professionals

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Libraries in the digital ageInformation accessFree speechLibrarianship

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Book overview

Buried in info? Cross-eyed over technology? From the bottom of a pile of paper, disks, books, e-books, and scattered thumb drives comes a cry of hope: Make way for the librarians--they can help!

Those who predicted the death of libraries forgot to consider that, in the automated maze of contemporary life, none of us--expert and hopelessly baffled alike--can get along without human help. And not just any help: we need librarians, the only ones who can save us from being buried by the digital age. This Book Is Overdue! is a romp through the ranks of information professionals--from the blunt and obscenely funny bloggers to the quiet, law-abiding librarians gagged by the FBI. These are the pragmatic idealists who fuse the tools of the digital age with their love for the written word and the enduring values of free speech, open access, and scout-badge-quality assistance to anyone in need.

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