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- catalog abstract ""In 'Pulp Friction', a highly provocative and frequently humorous collection of essays, Blaise Cronin scrutinizes the world of North American librarianship, excoriating its excesses and inconsistencies. From pornography and censorship to the idiocies of accreditation; from feminist scholarship to the rhetoric of the digital divide; from faculty status for librarians to developments in electronic scholarship; from information warfare to the role of the American Library Association, this book is an engaging tour of 'Libraryland'. ... ideal for professional librarians, library science faculty, library users, and all those who care about the nature and role of the library in contemporary society."--Back cover.".
- catalog contributor b12709268.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""In 'Pulp Friction', a highly provocative and frequently humorous collection of essays, Blaise Cronin scrutinizes the world of North American librarianship, excoriating its excesses and inconsistencies. From pornography and censorship to the idiocies of accreditation; from feminist scholarship to the rhetoric of the digital divide; from faculty status for librarians to developments in electronic scholarship; from information warfare to the role of the American Library Association, this book is an engaging tour of 'Libraryland'. ... ideal for professional librarians, library science faculty, library users, and all those who care about the nature and role of the library in contemporary society."--Back cover.".
- catalog description "Accreditation: Retool it or kill it -- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? -- Accreditation anew -- Uporn my word! -- Whatever happened to common sense? -- Common nonsense -- Selection and censorship: Splitting hairs -- Customer satisfaction -- Rank injustice? -- For whom the bell curve tolls -- The mother of all myths -- Mything the point -- The view from the trenches -- The dreaded "L" word -- Postprofessionalism -- Process fetish -- A safe haven -- A community intelligence service -- Peer review and the stuff of scholarship -- The end of first sale -- The digital divide -- Celebrity challenged -- Postmodern periphrasis -- Plagiarism and political correctness -- Postscript to plagiarism -- Amazons R us -- Angry amazons -- Margaret Rufsvold, pioneer -- Of books and bottles -- Milquetoast and cookies -- The university press -- Locus classicus -- The joys of JESSE -- Welcome to my web world -- The knowledge management drug -- Information warfare -- Postscript to information warfare -- Digibabble -- Digibabble meets Ptolemy -- The last resort -- Will E-publishing save academic research? -- Acknowledged but ignored: Credit where credit's due -- New age numerology: A gloss on Apostol -- The Warholian moment and other proto-indicators of scholarly salience -- About the author.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog extent "xi, 140 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Pulp friction.".
- catalog identifier "0810845474 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Pulp friction.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press,".
- catalog relation "Pulp friction.".
- catalog subject "020 21".
- catalog subject "Information science.".
- catalog subject "Library science.".
- catalog subject "Z665 .C78 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "Accreditation: Retool it or kill it -- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? -- Accreditation anew -- Uporn my word! -- Whatever happened to common sense? -- Common nonsense -- Selection and censorship: Splitting hairs -- Customer satisfaction -- Rank injustice? -- For whom the bell curve tolls -- The mother of all myths -- Mything the point -- The view from the trenches -- The dreaded "L" word -- Postprofessionalism -- Process fetish -- A safe haven -- A community intelligence service -- Peer review and the stuff of scholarship -- The end of first sale -- The digital divide -- Celebrity challenged -- Postmodern periphrasis -- Plagiarism and political correctness -- Postscript to plagiarism -- Amazons R us -- Angry amazons -- Margaret Rufsvold, pioneer -- Of books and bottles -- Milquetoast and cookies -- The university press -- Locus classicus -- The joys of JESSE -- Welcome to my web world -- The knowledge management drug -- Information warfare -- Postscript to information warfare -- Digibabble -- Digibabble meets Ptolemy -- The last resort -- Will E-publishing save academic research? -- Acknowledged but ignored: Credit where credit's due -- New age numerology: A gloss on Apostol -- The Warholian moment and other proto-indicators of scholarly salience -- About the author.".
- catalog title "Pulp friction / Blaise Cronin,".
- catalog type "text".