| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 232 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Et in arcadia ego, 1941-1945 -- London, 1946-1947 -- On the move, 1948-1952 -- Finchley Catholic Grammar School, 1952-1957 -- Hampstead Public Library, 1957-1960 -- Paris and afterwards, 1960-1962 -- Marriage, Ealing Public Library, and library school, 1962-1966 -- BNB, children, cataloguing, and a crisis, 1966-1969 -- BNB, the British Library, 1970-1974 -- Illinois, 1974-1975 -- Back to England, the University of Illinois Library, 1975-1978 -- The Anglo-American cataloguing rules, 1968-1978 |
| Summary |
From his earliest reading memories in wartime Britain through five decades of librarianship, eminent librarian and former ALA President Michael Gorman offers insights from his extraordinary career in this new memoir |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Gorman, Michael, 1941-
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Gorman, Michael, 1941- |
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Librarians -- United States -- Biography
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Librarians -- England -- Biography
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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Librarians
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England
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011011676 |
| ISBN |
9780838993026 |
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0838993028 |
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9780838993033 |
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0838993036 |
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9786613127617 |
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6613127612 |
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