An Alternative Vision of Librarianship: James Danky and the Sociocultural Politics of Collection Development
Dilevko, Juris
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Title
An Alternative Vision of Librarianship: James Danky and the Sociocultural Politics of Collection Development
Author(s)
Dilevko, Juris
Issue Date
2008
Keyword(s)
Collection development
Abstract
"The work of James P. Danky, longtime librarian at the Wisconsin
Historical Society, is situated within the intellectual context of collection-
development practices. Danky’s belief in the value of alternative
periodicals — and the lengths that he went to identify and acquire
them — may be interpreted as a rejection of increasingly mechanical
and generic ways to develop library collections. Reliance on centralized
selection procedures, approval plans, and serials vendors was
not only tantamount to the ""disintegration of librarians as sources
of expertise,"" but also structurally privileged books and serials from
mainstream publishers. The biennial Alternative Library Literature
(1982–2001), which Danky coedited with Sanford Berman, is compared
with the annual Library Lit.—The Best of (1970–1990) to illuminate
the way in which contrasting philosophical approaches to the
selection of anthology articles may be interpreted as a microcosm
of larger issues in collection development."
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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