El. knyga: Not in My Library!: "e;Berman's Bag"e; Columns from The Unabashed Librarian, 2000-2013

McFarland & Company has done a valuable service for librarianship and academia by bringing Bermans work to a larger audience than that of The Unabashed Librarian readershipJournal of Information Ethics; recommended...essentialAustralian Library Journal; fascinatingCanadian Library Association; of value...excellentARBA; Bermans incredible, lifelong commitment to people-oriented librarianship shines through every pageThe Moral Atheist; fascinatingFeliciter; In a world longing for heroes, lets pay tribute to SandyBill Katz (1988); Like a modern-day Diogenes, Sandy seeks honest librarians and where he does not find them, calls them to task. Good thing his humor is as great as his outrage at the shoddy, the biased, the incomprehensibleJames P. Danky, coeditor (with Sandy), Alternative Library Literature, 19822001; The indefatigable Sandy is, right now, campaigning for LC to add the subject headings stop-and-frisk, wage theft, and drone warfareTina Gross, Minnesota librarian, writer and activist; Sandy Berman is one of the most original and interesting thinkers in the library field. Anything he writesI want to read!Patricia Glass Schuman, cofounder Neal-Schuman, former ALA president; Known as an advocate for the disadvantaged, the minority, the isolated, Sandy is much morefaithful custodian of the intellectual commons that the public library must be if our democracy is to surviveJames Chaffee, San Francisco library advocate; Sandy has the passion of a revolutionary. His righteous indignation is all the more endearing for the pomposity of his targetsJames V. Carmichael, Jr., LIS professor, UNC Greensboro; Sandy Berman is fire for the mind. Along with heat and light, he brings unchained intelligence and a passion for justice. Hes readable, hes revolutionary, and, by golly, hes right!Rosalie Maggio, How to Say It author; Sandy Berman is the biggest mensch in librarianship. He is fiercely brilliant and critical, but just as strongly warm and generousJenna Freedman, research & zine librarian, Barnard; Indulge yourself in a marathon binge. Where else are you going to find cover-to-cover unadulterated library opinion? Just askin!Toni Samek, LIS professor, University of Alberta; For more than half a century, Sandy Berman has radicalized librarianship, improved cataloging, admonished the Library of Congress, stimulated peers, and published hundreds of scholarly works. Thank goodness!Robert Hauptman, editor, Journal of Information Ethics; We live in difficult times, but Sandys optimism and faith gives us all hope for the future of librariesEarl Lee, technical services, Pittsburg State University; Our leading missionary, revolutionary, irritant and inspirationEric Moon (1993).