Some Implications of the Canon Debate for Collection Development
Brian Quinn
(Recent graduate of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science of the University of Illinois)
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Abstract
Canons have been of interest to librarians dating back to the days when Robert Maynard Hutchins instituted the Great Books program at the University of Chicago. Hutchins did so at the suggestion of the popular philosopher, Mortimer Adler. When Adler later helped to popularize the program with the public, public libraries around the country became the sites for meetings of Great Books discussion groups.
Citation
Quinn, B. (1995), "Some Implications of the Canon Debate for Collection Development", Collection Building, Vol. 14 No. 1, pp. 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb023388
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1995, MCB UP Limited