Good reads

• The Abortion, a novel by Richard Brautigan. 1970
  About libraries as a poet would write about them, and so it is not about libraries at all. But it is about "Librarianship."
• "Against the Dogmatists, A Sceptical View of Libraries," Daniel Gore. American Libraries (11/70:953)
  A philosophical adventure, packed with allusions and illuminations. Don't miss Ortega y Gasset's fascist (albeit sublime) argument that librarians control information.
• "Censorship - Reevaluated," Dorothy Broderick. SLJ (11/71:3816)
  "I do not believe in an abstract concept of intellectual freedom." Perfect foil for Gore (above.) Much furor when printed.
• "Don't Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor," Margaret Bennett. Atlantic Monthly (5/65:93)
  A brilliant response to "retreating" into librarianship's "great, warm book-lined womb."
• "A Feminist Looks At Children's Books," Feminists on Children's Literature. SLJ (1/71:19) also Women's Lib issue Lj, 9/1/71
• "The Forest and the Trees," Arthur Curley. Lj (3/15/72:990)
  A blast at "take no stand" strict constructionism.
• "Frontier of Faith. Geography of Joy: A Librarian's Testament," Patsy Willey. WLB (5/71:858)
  Absolutely amazing - on several levels....
• "The Library of Babel," Jorge Luis Borges. In Labyrinths: selected stories and other writings. 1964
  "Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell. Let me be outraged and annihilated, but for one instant, in one being, let Your enormous Library be justified."
• "On Nalibwek," Fred Hanes. Focus on Indiana Libraries (3/70:45)
  The Sacred Cow of Bibliopolis.
• "Patents Impending," Martin Erlich. Odds and Book Ends (Winter 1965:22) also in Library Humor, Norman Stevens ed.
  The mad ultimate in book rip-off protection.
• "Peeling the Onion," Shirley Hake. ALA Adult Services (Fall/Winter 1971:2)
  Grilling that fresh MLS degree.
• Radical Software - any of the 5 issues, and Guerilla Television 1971, a book by the same people (Michael Shamberg et al)
• "Re-Defining the Image," Jack Shadbolt. British Columbia Library Quarterly (7/71:20)
  An artist's mind voyage through the tapestry a library can be. Above all, "The library should enjoy itself."
• "Social Responsibility and the Library Press," William Eshelman. WLB (5/72:804)
  Advocacy journalism advocated. yay
• "What Price Professionalism?" Renee Feinberg. Lj (2/14/71:691)
  High school librarian's stream of consciousness flowing around authority, with students' affirmation and courage.
• WLB - April Fool's Issues 1970 1971 1972