Louis Shores
Author: Orvin Lee Shiflett
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 336
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Louis Shores was one of the undisputed intellectual leaders of librarianship in the 1960s, noted for his fight to incorporate teaching functions into librarianship and to create programs of library education. Lee Shiflett's carefully researched and eminently readable account of Shores's fascinating life is an accurate portrait of the complex character and career of this librarian, poet, and maverick educator. This is a well-crafted and balanced portrait of an unusual and influential man. --AB BOOKMAN'S WEEKLY ...tells the story of this fascinating man's career and, in doing so, highlights many of the important issues in librarianship from the 1950s through the 1970s. --AMERICAN LIBRARIES