Questioning Library Neutrality: Essays from Progressive Librarian

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2008
Author
Editor: Alison M. Lewis
Language
English
Number of Pages
149 pp.
Publisher
Library Juice Press
City
Duluth, MN
Region
United States
Library Type
Library Associations
Public Libraries
Chronological Period
1950-1999
21st century
ISBN
9780977861774
Annotation

Contents:

  • Introduction / Alison Lewis 
  • Politics and anti-politics in librarianship / Mark Rosenzweig 
  • Corporate inroads in librarianship: the fight for the soul of the profession in the new millennium / Peter Mcdonald 
  • Librarianship and resistance / Sandy Iverson 
  • A few gates redux: an examination of the social responsibilities debate in the early 1970s and 1990s / Steven Joyce 
  • Activist librarianship: heritage or heresy? / Ann Sparanese 
  • Activist librarianship bibliography / Ann Sparanese
  • The myth of the neutral professional / Robert Jensen 
  • Information criticism : where is it? / Jack Andersen 
  • Towards self-reflection in librarianship: what is praxis? / by John J. Doherty 
  • The professional is political: redefining the social role of public libraries / Shiraz Durrani and Elizabeth Smallwood 
  • The hottest place in hell: the crisis of neutrality in contemporary librarianship / Joseph Good
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