"Our values, revised" is the profound reinterpretation, fifteen years after the first edition, of a work - Our values - which has greatly influenced the discussion on the present and future of the library and librarians. The professional values proposed are: management skills, service, intellectual freedom, rationality, literacy and learning, equity of access to knowledge and information, privacy, democracy and, respect to the first edition, Michael Gorman adds the greater good. An axiology of the library, therefore, and, even more so, a defense of the value of the library, but also a treatise on the advocacy of the library and librarians, of a system and a profession that must continually evolve to reaffirm and consolidate their centrality in the social and cultural context. Forewords by Rosa Maiello and Alberto Petrucciani. |