I acknowledge with gratitude the significant contributions to this work made by my wife, who believed in the project and helped me to complete it, and to my daughter, for reviewing parts of the manuscript.
The prevailing attitude of our library profession to the philosophical issues in librarianship is well illustrated by the attitude of publishing industry. I wrote letters to ten publishers inquiring abou t the feasibility of publishing a book on philosophy of librarianship. Some publishers did not bother to acknowledge receiving the letter; others, claiming a commercial unprofitability of such a publication, and without even seeing the manuscript expressed no interest in it.
Hence, I am grateful to Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) for giving this essay a chance to be read.
Fig. 1-1: Metalibrary Patterns [For explanation see Fig. 11-11<
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