Reviews for Golf Play Offs: A Sourcebook of Major Championship Men's and Women's Amateur and Professional Play Offs, 1876-1990

The average rating for Golf Play Offs: A Sourcebook of Major Championship Men's and Women's Amateur and Professional Play Offs, 1876-1990 based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-03-13 00:00:00 Eric Pomminville Heavily skimmed from cover to cover and experienced awe, admiration, jealousy, and most of all, amusement. Scott is a fantastic writer. He is acerbic yet thorough and thought-provoking. I never laughed so much reading a LIS book. Especially valuable is Chapter 4: Cataloging Comics. Here, Scott's demonstrates his life's work and this reader found it quite impressive. Keep in mind, it was written in 1990, so much of the discussion on academics' and librarians' attitudes towards comics are outdated. From Chapter 1: "The first thing to do to become a comics librarian is to get a librarian's position in a research library... there's room to make a difference, but you have to be able to see beyond the job you're hired for. After you have the job, see if you can talk people into starting a comics collection. you might have to engineer a big donation to do that. Next, engineer some more donations... When researchers have trouble, be there to help. When the disorganization of the collection starts to impede reasonable use, argue for cataloging. when impecunious scholars start arriving from all over the world, let them stay at your house. When the comics start to crowd out the rare Shakespeare volumes, do some fundraising to help buy a new building for the Shakespeare volumes. If you start to have too much fun, read the New York Times. If the institutional climate is reasonably receptive, all of these things, except for the new building, can be done from an entry-level position as cataloger, for example. And we're working on the new building." (25-26)

Review # 2 was written on 2016-08-28 00:00:00 Grigory Strizhov Full disclosure: I work with Randy. Randy is a pioneer of comics librarianship. For decades he was the sole banner-carrier confronting the profession with its unjustifiable marginalization of comics. Always of good humor, though, his assessment of the issue here is never mean-spirited. It's funny and fun to read. His hard work and high spirits have paid off, with comics librarianship being an accepted specialization in the field, if still a rare job. Randy has worked harder, however, on the actual work of being a comics librarian. He's built the largest collection of comic books in the nation, a huge collection of comic strips, and a huge collection of scholarship on comics. MSU Libraries attracts scholars from far and wide because of Randy's life's work. His book represents the foundation of where he's coming from: basic ideas on why and how to do comics librarianship. As he has been a pioneering librarian, this is a pioneering book for it's day, but Randy acknowledges how out of date it is. He's been approached about a second edition, but says it would take a complete re-write, something he'd consider doing in retirement, but not right now when there's actual comics library work to be done. Nevertheless, anyone interested in comics librarianship, its history, or how to challenge the biased assumptions of the library profession should read this.