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SRRT Newsletter

Author: American Library Association. Social Responsibilities Round Table
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries and society
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description

SRRT Newsletter

Author: American Library Association. Social Responsibilities Round Table
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries and society
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description

Intellectual Freedom and Social Responsibility in American Librarianship, 1967-1974

Author: Toni Samek
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786450738
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 199

Book Description
Between 1967 and 1974, a number of librarians came together to push for change in the American Library Association. They soon prompted a majority of the profession to examine their role in the dissemination and preservation of culture and to ask basic questions about the terrain that the profession defends. A particular concern was the limitations to intellectual freedom (if any) that might arise in the pursuit of other perhaps equally worthy goals. The questions raised by this advocacy group were based on a relatively new concept of librarianly social responsibility that was partly an outgrowth of the civil rights and antiwar agitation of the period and partly a continuation of the proud traditions of the alternative press movement in the United States. The resulting dissension and turmoil exposed an inherent discrepancy not only between the rhetoric of ideals within the profession and the reality of practice but between librarians as agents of change--librarians' having a social agenda--and professional "neutrality" or the provision of information for all sides without taking sides. These conflicts have never been resolved. The reader will find in this book a fully researched presentation of the years of ferment and political infighting that brought the issues into such sharp focus.

Which Side Are You On?

Author: Elaine Harger
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786494557
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 237

Book Description
Shattering any idea that librarianship is a politically neutral realm, this insider's account of seven debates from the floor of the American Library Association Council illustrates the mechanisms the governing body used to maintain the status quo on issues like racism, government surveillance and climate change. At play in each debate are rules of parliamentary procedure, appeals to authority, denial, and chastisement of librarians who pushed the ALA to make real its commitments to human rights and social justice. Providing a fascinating look at the Council's inner workings, the author parses debates concerning anti-apartheid boycotts; partnerships between ALA, McDonald's and the Boy Scouts of America; spying by the National Security Agency; censorship in Israel and the Occupied Territories; fossil fuel industry divestment; and the recent revival by ALA's Office of Intellectual Freedom of the infamous film The Speaker.

Head Start Newsletter

Author: Project Head Start (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Preschool
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description

Progressive Library Organizations

Author: Alfred Kagan
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476617295
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description
This work presents the history and impact of the seven most important progressive library organizations worldwide--in Austria, Germany, South Africa, Sweden, United Kingdom, and two in the United States. Each organization is considered within its national context, and in fact, the English word "organization" does not quite fit the nature of all of the groups. The South African organization, LIWO, was transitional in that it helped bring South African librarianship from apartheid to majority rule and then disbanded. The other organizations or their successors are still working in one form or another. Some of the organizations have had or continue to have vibrant local chapters, though many of the original activists have recently retired or died. The author has interviewed many of them at a time when they were assessing their life work, and handing off to new generations.