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Jeremiad jottings /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cronin, Blaise
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Library science.
Information science.
Political correctness > United States.
Education, Higher > Political aspects > United States.
United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
United States > Intellectual life > 21st century.
Table of Contents:
  • Affirmative reaction
  • Can you "celebrate" diversity?
  • He may be retro but [He's] not done spewing
  • Mollycoddlying mediocrities
  • Sartorial shenanigans
  • Rites and wrongs of passage
  • Disruptive technologies
  • Very well endowed
  • What a library is not
  • Barefacedly barefoot
  • All too common scents
  • Burned any good books lately?
  • Wolves in sheep's clothing
  • Coach class in academia
  • The trouble with trophy speakers
  • Follow the money
  • Bun ladies on bikes
  • Responsible, moi?
  • Egypt's white elephant
  • Aslib : a very special association
  • The public intellectual
  • Signs of the times
  • Name dropping
  • Mangled metaphors
  • The language of learning
  • Weasel words
  • Card games
  • Virtual venting
  • Bursting into print
  • Holding the center
  • Honoris causa
  • Resident alien
  • The ten best things in America.