“You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught”: American Special Collections Library Education and the Inculcation of Exclusivity
Abstract
One might well ask what Rodgers and Hammerstein have to do with rare books and manuscripts, or what they might have to do with special collections library education and exclusivity. This is not so easily explained, even if one happens to be familiar with “You've Got to Be Carefully Taught,” the antepenultimate song from Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1949 musical South Pacific. For those who don't know South Pacific, I'm afraid space constraints do not allow for a plot summary. Suffice it to say that near the end of act two, Lieutenant Joe Cable sings “You've Got to Be Carefully Taught,” . . .
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