Michael Gorman
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March 6, 2014
MICHAEL GORMAN (born 1941) is one of the most influential voices of librarianship in a century. He is the editor of the AACR2 cataloguing rules, used by libraries almost everywhere; wrote an enduring ethics for librarians called The Eight Principles of Librarianship; and was instrumental in ushering into existence what we now call the British Library, arguably the finest library in the world. His entertaining memoir Broken Pieces: a library life hints at a pleasingly Bohemian youth. His witty, humane, visionary books are manifestos for what makes a good library and how the library fits into society; any top-down conversion of a library into a “resource centre,” in Gorman’s view, is a resounding loss for humanity. His Eight Principles are informed by Buddhist wisdom and envision a library system that is truly for all. He prompts us to embrace the spiritual, the domestic and the communal in our actions, especially in a culture increasingly dominated by the corporate and the institutional.
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