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The Dialectic of Academic Librarianship: A Critical Approach - Softcover

Bales, Stephen

 
9781936117895: The Dialectic of Academic Librarianship: A Critical Approach
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1936117894 ISBN 13: 9781936117895
Verlag: Library Juice Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Oftentimes, academic librarians are not fully conscious of the role that their libraries play in late-capitalist society or how they, as information professionals, help to perpetuate this role. Adopting a dialectical materialist perspective, Stephen Bales investigates the modern academic library as an institution and academic librarianship as a profession. The author examines the academic library's position as a culturally and historically situated producer and curator of knowledge and its instrumental role in driving social reproduction and the status quo. The book then considers the effect of academic librarians in bolstering dominant ideologies and argues instead for a transformative, engaged librarianship that recognizes and implements the academic library as a locus for positive social change. To these ends, the book serves as a tool for deepening the theoretical consciousness of practicing academic librarians and as a point of entry for praxis.

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Verlag
Library Juice Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1936117894
ISBN 13 
9781936117895
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
202
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
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