A Search for Meaning: American Library Metaphors, 1876-1926

Autor:	Robert F. Nardini
Rok vydání:	2001
Předmět:	Government Vision Metaphor media_common.quotation_subject Media studies Library and Information Sciences Library history Transformative learning Law Social representation Rhetoric Institution Sociology media_common
Zdroj:	The Library Quarterly. 71:111-140
ISSN:	1549-652X 0024-2519
DOI:	10.1086/603259
Popis:	During the first fifty years of the modern American library movement, 1876-1926, one way that librarians sought to transform their institution was through the use of metaphor. By referring to the library in terms of more visible institutions, librarians hoped to inspire one another, to recruit newcomers to the profession, and to influence outsiders such as government officials and philanthropists. Moreover, metaphor was a way to conceive new visions in the first place. Metaphors based on the school or university and on the church were the most common early in the period, while metaphors drawn from business and industry were later the favorites. When libraries did not prove to be the transformative agencies predicted by early leaders, the gap between reality and library rhetoric deepened movement disillusionment. Librarians today who attempt to break with the past through library metaphors based on current domains of success in fact resemble their pre-decessors.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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