The View from an Elder: Closing Essay

• Autores: Jo Ellen Broome
• Localización: Library Philosophy and Practice, ISSN-e 1522-0222, Vol. 9, Nº. 2, 2007
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The author explores the shapeshifting of Wart, the young King Arthur in T.H. White's The Once and Future King, as a metaphor for professional and personal transformation as a librarian. The shape shift has been an attitude shift, a mental reshaping, of a librarian come lately to the field. Concerns about the staying power of new technology coexist with the magical gift of connection from tools like Google.