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More significant than job title is the impact an IS or LS designation had on salaries. The average annual starting salary for graduates who identified their jobs as IS was $48,413 compared to $39,580 for LS jobs (an 18.2% variance). Salary differences were even more apparent when comparing women to men. In 2006, women who reported salaries for IS-related jobs had an average annual starting salary of $46,118, while men received $55,423 on average.

LIS education has changed from a library-focused
Ptolemaic model to an information-focused Copernican paradigm.

People need not only to obtain things, they need above all the freedom to make things among which they can live, to give shape to them according to their own tastes, and to put them to use in caring for and about others.

autonomous and creative intercourse among persons, and the intercourse of persons with their environment; and this in contrast with the conditioned response of persons to the demands made upon them by others, and by a man-made environment.

The pre-Socratic awakening was the result of a unique concatenation of circumstances in place by the 7th century BC. In his classic investigation The Origin of Greek Thought, published half a century ago, JP Vernant connects the pre-Socratic awakening with the rise of the polis, or city state. Following the end of the Mycenaean empire in the 12th century BC, the Greeks lived in largely agrarian communities for nearly 400 years. With increasing wealth and socioeconomic disparities came a risk of serious disorder. A series of political reorganisations led to the emergence of a participatory democracy, with leaders who were increasingly accountable to the citizens they led. Implicit in this was the assumption that all voices, at least of the minority who had citizenship, were equal. This principle of equality gave persuasion rather than force or authority greater importance as an instrument of governance. It was in this dialogic society, with an emerging ethos of critical discussion, that, in the 7th century BC, Greek philosophy was born in Ionia.

no one can doubt that books will ever continue to be, as they
now are, the great vehicle of imparting and acquiring knowledge and carrying on
the work of education

a noble public library, to which
the young people of both sexes, when they leave the schools, can resort for
those works which pertain to general culture, or which are needful for research
into any branch of useful knowledge

ibraries have an obligation to focus efforts on those who are excluded from full social participation by virtue of class, race, gender, or any other characteristic that unjustly disenfranchises them.

the claim to neutrality is "rather dubious," adding that librarians have always supported democratic aims and taken liberal positions on social issues beyond intellectual freedom.

allowed the ALA to continue to rely on an ambiguous status quo meaning of social responsibility without sorting out its different implications for libraries, librarians, and librarianship, a condition that still troubles the profession.

our position should be support for all efforts to help inform and educate the people of the United States to the gravity of these problems

To what extent do libraries have a responsibility to actively redress the public sphere's failure to represent alternative political positions that are routinely and systematically excluded from its agenda?

BWV 552

the present trend in librarianship of approaching questions freshly and trying to escape tradition in favor of a rational approach.

A traditionalist is someone who does something without a reason beyond the fact that “things have always been done this way.” Therefore the word denotes a pre-modern and irrational approach, in contrast to the scientific, modern approach of the person using the word.