Ebook: Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library: How Postmodern Consumer Capitalism Threatens Democracy, Civil Education and the Public Good

Preface; 1. The Crisis of Democracy and the Public Library; 2. Democracy and the Profession of Librarianship; 3. The Reasoning Public: Public Libraries, Democracy and the Public Good; 4. Education, Democracy and the Public Good; 5. Education, Edification, Entertainment and Consumption; 6. From Ethical Liberalism to Economic Liberalism; 7. Coney Island and the Rise of Mass Entertainment; 8. Barbarism and Entertainment; 9. From Citizen to Consumer; 10. Democracy, the Public Good and the Post-modern Information Economy; 11. Markets, Bureaucracies and New Economy Management Theory.