Pulp Friction

In this highly provocative and frequently humorous collection of essays, Blaise Cronin scrutinizes the world of North American librarianship, highlighting 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.

Blaise Cronin is the Rudy Professor of Information Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he has been dean of the School of Library and Information Science since 1991.

Credits	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Accreditation: Retool It or Kill It	p. 1
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?	p. 4
Accreditation Anew	p. 8
Uporn My Word!	p. 10
Whatever Happened to Common Sense?	p. 13
Common Nonsense	p. 17
Selection and Censorship: Splitting Hairs	p. 20
Customer Satisfaction	p. 23
Rank Injustice?	p. 26
For Whom the Bell Curve Tolls	p. 29
The Mother of All Myths	p. 32
Mything the Point	p. 35
The View from the Trenches	p. 38
The Dreaded "L" Word	p. 41
Postprofessionalism	p. 44
Process Fetish	p. 47
A Safe Haven	p. 50
A Community Intelligence Service	p. 53
Peer Review and the Stuff of Scholarship	p. 56
The End of First Sale	p. 59
The Digital Divide	p. 62
Celebrity Challenged	p. 65
Postmodern Periphrasis	p. 69
Plagiarism and Political Correctness	p. 73
Postscript to Plagiarism	p. 77
Amazons R Us	p. 78
Angry Amazons	p. 81
Margaret Rufsvold, Pioneer	p. 84
Of Books and Bottles	p. 87
Milquetoast and Cookies	p. 90
The University Press	p. 93
Locus Classicus	p. 96
The Joys of JESSE	p. 99
Welcome to My Web World	p. 102
The Knowledge Management Drug	p. 105
Information Warfare	p. 108
Postscript to Information Warfare	p. 111
Digibabble	p. 115
Digibabble Meets Ptolemy	p. 118
The Last Resort	p. 120
Will E-Publishing Save Academic Research?	p. 123
Acknowledged but Ignored: Credit Where Credit's Due	p. 127
New Age Numerology: A Gloss on Apostol	p. 130
The Warholian Moment and Other Proto-indicators of Scholarly Salience	p. 134
About the Author	p. 139
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