A Critique of the Information Broker: Contexts of Reference Services.

Buschman, John

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ERIC Number: EJ421690

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Publication Date: 1990

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A Critique of the Information Broker: Contexts of Reference Services.

Buschman, John

Reference Librarian, n31 p131-51 1990

Argues that, with the trend toward viewing reference librarians as information brokers and the reification and privatization of information, the traditional goals of libraries and librarianship are being lost, i.e., providing free and open access to books and information to promote informed democracy and the public good. (63 references) (EAM)

Descriptors: Access to Information, Computers, Information Scientists, Information Technology, Librarian Attitudes, Librarians, Library Role, Library Science, Online Searching, Privatization, Professional Recognition, Reference Services, Values

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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