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Title Questioning library neutrality : essays from Progressive librarian / edited by Alison Lewis
Published Duluth, Minn. : Library Juice Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (149 pages)
Contents Introduction / by Alison Lewis -- Politics and anti-politics in librarianship / by Mark Rosenzweig -- Corporate inroads in librarianship : the fight for the soul of the profession in the new millennium / by Peter Mcdonald -- Librarianship and resistance / by Sandy Iverson -- A few gates redux : an examination of the social responsibilities debate in the early 1970s and 1990s / by Steven Joyce -- Activist librarianship : heritage or heresy? / by Ann Sparanese -- The myth of the neutral professional / by Robert Jensen -- Information criticism : where is it? / by 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 / by Shiraz Durrani and Elizabeth Smallwood -- The hottest place in hell : the crisis of neutrality in contemporary librarianship / by Joseph Good
Summary Questioning Library Neutrality: Essays from Progressive Librarian presents essays that relate to neutrality in librarianship in a philosophical or practical sense, and sometimes both. They are a selection of essays originally published in Progressive Librarian, the journal of the Progressive Librarians Guild, presented in the chronological order of their appearance there
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Libraries and society.
Library science -- Political aspects
Library science -- Social aspects
Library science -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Librarians -- Professional ethics.
Libraries -- Censorship.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- General.
Librarians -- Professional ethics
Libraries and society
Libraries -- Censorship
Library science -- Moral and ethical aspects
Library science -- Political aspects
Library science -- Social aspects
Soziale Funktion
Bibliothekar
Berufsethik
Neutralität
Politische Einstellung
Bibliothek
Form Electronic book
Author Lewis, Alison M., 1959-
ISBN 9781936117260
1936117266
OTHER TI Progressive librarian