id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-12627 American Library Association, Letters 1974-05-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 1606 72 50 Mr. Axford's editorial in your January is- sue which advocated the elimination of middle-management as the quick step to developing a participatory environment in libraries is a simplistic approach to a complex problem. Libraries need to abandon the prin- ciples that middle-management have years of experience and a patina of book dust, and that most authority goes to the most authoritarian. cache/crl-12627.pdf txt/crl-12627.txt