The view from an elder: closing essay.(LPP Special Issue on Libraries and Google)(Viewpoint essay)

From: Library Philosophy and Practice | Date: June 1, 2007| Author: Broome, JoEllen | Copyright information

My first encounter with shape-shifting, the ability to transform into something else, was in a novel full of evocative images of a boy who turned into a bird. It was an enchanting idea that never really left me and it stayed close to my heart just waiting to surface and delight me again and again. You too may have read and loved T.H. White's The Once and Future King, the chronicles of Wart, the boy who would become King Arthur. The young royal's schooling in leadership consists of ...

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