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Peer reviewedBlanke, Henry T. – Journal of Information Ethics, 1996
Contends that an entrepreneurial model of librarianship contradicts traditional ideals of free and equal access to information and argues that such a model threatens the future of the library as a vital public sphere of democratic culture. Discusses broad trends of advanced capitalism to provide a context for the critical interpretation of issues…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Capitalism, Criticism, Culture
