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Although they may not have always been explicitly stated, library work has always had normative goals. Until recently, such goals have largely been abstract; they are things like knowledge creation, education, forwarding science, preserving history, supporting democracy, and safeguarding civilization. The modern spirit of social and cultural critique, however, has focused our attention on the concrete, material relationships that determine human potentiality and opportunity, and library workers are increasingly seeing the institution of the library, as well as library work,...

Everyone who is interested in the ivory-billed woodpecker will want to read this book from scientists who wish to examine the data from all the places Tanner explored to the average person who just wants to read a compelling story.
Tim Gallagher, author of The Grail Bird: The Rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker
In 1935 naturalist James T. Tanner was a twenty-one-year-old graduate student when he saw his first ivory-billed woodpecker, one of America s Istudent when he saw his first ivory-billed woodpecker, one of America s rarest birds, in a remote swamp in northern...