id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-12001 Bundy, Mary Lee; Wasserman, Paul Professionalism Reconsidered 1968-01-01 22 .pdf application/pdf 13480 482 43 tential for professional service, the toler- ance for individual needs will be most sharply curtailed, the client service mini- mized, and the professional values most seriously threatened. The reluctance to be assertive may be as much a function of insecurity born out of fears engendered by the limits of the modern librarian's mind to cope with the complexities of an ever broadening spectrum of knowledge, or awe of the growing sophistication of middle class readers among whom high- er educational preparation is now widely characteristic, or because of the con- fusion which attends a set of objectives for library service which tolerates light diversion with intellectual development as equally viable missions: It is the cli- ent then who always determines his wants, and it is only the most iconoclas- tic librarian who suggests alternatives either by making precise recommenda- tions or by skewing client choices through close control of the content of collections to reflect excellence. cache/crl-12001.pdf txt/crl-12001.txt