Beyond measure: Valuing libraries Chris Bourg

Stanford University Libraries

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Valuing Libraries•Asserting value/s•Enacting values•Assessing value

“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a

librarian can bring you back the right one.”

-Neil Gaiman

Group of Librarians in Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island. ALA Archives - University of

Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“What do you talk about at a library conference? The Dewey Decimal System?”

“I’d love to be a librarian … you probably just read

all day, right?”

“Now that everything is online, do we really need

libraries?”

#thingsthatmakelibrarianscry

“What you do is the

definition of good. It’s very

noble and you are very

brave.”

-Henry Rollins

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Core Values• Access• Confidentiality/Privacy• Democracy

•Diversity• Education and Lifelong

Learning• Intellectual Freedom

• Preservation• The Public Good• Professionalism• Service• Social

Responsibility

Adopted June 29, 2004, by the ALA Council.

Diversity“We value our nation's

diversity and strive to reflect that diversity by providing a full spectrum of resources

and services to the communities we serve.”

How brave is your collection?

bv.stanford.edu

"If My Library Had the Book,

Sir..."

“With great

power comes

great

responsibility.”

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Books…Not just for reading anymore

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"the legendary Margaret Kimball helped me go

through the holdings and find what I needed. Jim

Kent, who runs the media and microfilm room at Green Library, and his

staff helped me in ways probably best kept

between us…"

The rock stars• Jacque Hettel (@jacquehettel)• Bess Sadler (@eosadler)• Glen Worthey (@gworthey)• Sarah Seestone• Katie Young

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