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Jim Thompson's satirical reinterpretation ('Books are for profit / Every reader his bill') and Gorman's Fifth New Law ('Honour the past and create the future') represent fundamentally opposed positions. Which of the following best captures this ideological tension?
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- 1Opposition between digital librarianship and traditional cataloguing philosophy
- 2Disagreement between quantitative and qualitative measures of library growth
- 3Conflict between commercial commodification of information and the ethical stewardship of knowledge heritage✓
- 4Tension between open access and closed access library systems
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Conflict between commercial commodification of information and the ethical stewardship of knowledge heritage
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