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To illuminate the state of libraries in the USA before 1910 I suggest Susan Orlean "The Library Book" Atlantic Books 9781782392255 which takes Los Angeles as an exemplar. Adrian Smith Leeds ________________________________ From: A general library and information science list for news and discussion. <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of john <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, September 2, 2019 09:37 AM To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Knowledge illusion #knowledgeillusion I stumbled by chance, accident, fate, luck, fortune on the text of this name written by two US who call themselves cognitive scientists, who they say have been teaching and researching for twenty-five years, and who say that cognitive science is the study of human intelligence. The first really strange thing is that there is no mention of libraries, of knowledge organisation, surely as obscure a term as cognitive science, of taxonomy, ontology, classification or catalogues, or even of species and genera and abstraction. (I'm not sure about the no mention, it might be there are terms I don't recognise.) They are enthusiastic about John Dewey, so I reread his How we think, just to check what I knew a long time ago, he doesn't mention libraries either, though in his case, 1910, libraries might not be widely available, but perhaps he is simply denying the existence of another Dewey to protect his integrity. The second thing of course I have known for a long time; US enthusiasm for the private sector, this was a big issue with Michael Porter's value chain concept which I came across in 1985, thought the text useful but had to deal with the absence of public sector and co-operation rather than a fixation with competitive strategy. The third thing is relatively knovel to me, the concept of greening, I did a green audit project in 1996 and have become more and more conscious of the necessary issues, and they are becoming more widely available no. These cognitive scientists are committed to motorism and seem unaware of the material conditions determining their consciousness. The Knowledge Illusion places emphasis on collective rather than individual knowledge, which might be to be commended, but they have no history. I remember being engaged with the librarians for social change collective, I know of the gay left collective, and a number of other collective categories once active on which there is little history, now necessarily to be rebuilt. This is rather long for an email message but the material is being replicated on linkedin and I'm using #knowledgeillusion as when googlgrepping it, I found the RSA popping up. If anyone else on this list is FRSA it would be good to connect. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the LIS-LINK list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=LIS-LINK&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the LIS-LINK list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=LIS-LINK&A=1