Public Knowledge, Private Ignorance: Toward a Library and Information Policy

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An examination of the role of libraries in the utilization of knowledge and in enhancing the informed conduct of life incorporates a review of the goals of library use and library services.

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Where the definition of public knowledge may surprise readers, the second part of the book will frighten them. The depth of private ignorance, ' as Wilson relates it, is like the Mariana Trench, virtually unplumbable, and while we might quibble with some of the suppositions, the weight of the arguments leaves little room for doubt.-College & Research Libraries
"Where the definition of public knowledge may surprise readers, the second part of the book will frighten them. The depth of private ignorance, ' as Wilson relates it, is like the Mariana Trench, virtually unplumbable, and while we might quibble with some of the suppositions, the weight of the arguments leaves little room for doubt."-College & Research Libraries