I think Kuhn is definitely going to stick with me, at least for the duration of my MLIS studies, if not forever after; when I read in Baker's Double Fold about the destruction of library material, I think of how Kuhn's new paradigms destroy the old in order to dis- and replace them... it's a violent revolution, and Baker does a good job making it seem bloody, too!
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Baker certainly does make the revolution seem bloody. I wondered how much was merely hyperbole, or if he really took his arguments that seriously.
Hi Cathleen! Welcome to my library school blog!
I think Baker is truly passionate/serious about it -- the fact that he risked half of his and his wife's retirement savings on buying that collection of early American newspapers that was being sold by the British library seems proof of his being very much in earnest... and I noticed he included a quote from a conversation he had with some library person who told him there were more important things in life than old newspapers/books, which Baker seemed to take as an affront...
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