TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shavit,David
TI  - The politics of public librarianship
SN  - 0313248168 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
AV  - Z 678 S533p 1986
U1  - 025.1 
PY  - 1986///
CY  - New York
PB  - Greenwood Press
KW  - Public libraries
KW  - Administration
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Libraries and state
KW  - Library science
KW  - Library administration
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Bibliotecas públicas
KW  - Administración
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Bibliotecas y estado
KW  - Biblioteconomía
KW  - Administración de bibliotecas
N1  - Includes index; Bibliography: p. [145]-153
N2  - Public librarians do not usually see themselves as politicians. Professor Shavit's study, the first major work on the subject in over 35 years, fills a major gap in scholarship on the public library in the political process and provides a detailed survey of the political context in which the modern library functions
ER  -