Breaking Barriers: A Librarian’s Story of Changing Times
Autor Robert Wedgeworthen Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 aug 2026
In this compelling first-hand account, Robert Wedgeworth traces his remarkable journey-from growing up in racially intolerant times to becoming executive director of the American Library Association (ALA) and helping shape the national and international library landscape.
With candid insights, including the untold story of what exactly happened at Columbia University, Wedgeworth offers an insider's view of pivotal moments in the histories of influential organizations such as the ALA and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). His reflections offer fascinating insight and thoughtful perspective on the transformation of library leadership and institutions.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9798216196143
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 20 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 20 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited
Locul publicării:New York, United States
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Cuprins
Prologue
Chapter 1: Beginnings
Chapter 2: Lincoln High School
Chapter 3: Wabash College
Chapter 4: Becoming a Librarian
Chapter 5: New Information Technologies
Chapter 6: Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey
Chapter 7: ALA Calls
Chapter 8: The Re-Structuring of ALA
Chapter 9: Member Dues, Publishing, and Public Relations
Chapter 10: Exceptional ALA Personalities
Chapter 11: Columbia Calls
Chapter 12: IFLA and My Steps to a Global Vision
Chapter 13: University of Illinois
Chapter 14: ProLiteracy
Chapter 15: Family
Chapter 16: Education for Information Professionals
Appendices
Index
Chapter 1: Beginnings
Chapter 2: Lincoln High School
Chapter 3: Wabash College
Chapter 4: Becoming a Librarian
Chapter 5: New Information Technologies
Chapter 6: Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey
Chapter 7: ALA Calls
Chapter 8: The Re-Structuring of ALA
Chapter 9: Member Dues, Publishing, and Public Relations
Chapter 10: Exceptional ALA Personalities
Chapter 11: Columbia Calls
Chapter 12: IFLA and My Steps to a Global Vision
Chapter 13: University of Illinois
Chapter 14: ProLiteracy
Chapter 15: Family
Chapter 16: Education for Information Professionals
Appendices
Index
Recenzii
In this book, Dr. Wedgeworth offers a well-documented review of libraries and librarians through the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century. This narrative, both professional and personal, shares the challenges of library leaders learning how to acknowledge and overcome biases, forging new paths with lessons applicable today.
Dr. Robert Wedgeworth (b. 1937) strode the millennium as libraries evolved from paper-based to electronic. From a boyhood attending segregated schools in Kansas City to President of the International Federation of Library Associations, Dr. Wedgeworth recounts his wide-ranging career which included Executive Director of the American Library Association, Dean of a major research library, Dean of the storied LIS program at Columbia University, and CEO of ProLiteracy Worldwide. This is an engaging and personal autobiography of a basketball standout who worked his way through college as a drummer and whose vision of global librarianship defined by his deeply thoughtful books and scholarship has influenced the world.
Robert Wedgeworth's memoir chronicles a remarkable career that includes leadership of ALA, a library school, a major research library, IFLA, and a national adult literacy organization. He was, in my view, the most effective ALA Executive Director of my professional lifetime. His portrait of the association he inherited-declining membership, calls for greater democracy, and budget pressures-feels strikingly current. This is a memoir worth reading.
Dr. Robert Wedgeworth (b. 1937) strode the millennium as libraries evolved from paper-based to electronic. From a boyhood attending segregated schools in Kansas City to President of the International Federation of Library Associations, Dr. Wedgeworth recounts his wide-ranging career which included Executive Director of the American Library Association, Dean of a major research library, Dean of the storied LIS program at Columbia University, and CEO of ProLiteracy Worldwide. This is an engaging and personal autobiography of a basketball standout who worked his way through college as a drummer and whose vision of global librarianship defined by his deeply thoughtful books and scholarship has influenced the world.
Robert Wedgeworth's memoir chronicles a remarkable career that includes leadership of ALA, a library school, a major research library, IFLA, and a national adult literacy organization. He was, in my view, the most effective ALA Executive Director of my professional lifetime. His portrait of the association he inherited-declining membership, calls for greater democracy, and budget pressures-feels strikingly current. This is a memoir worth reading.