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Author : Nancy Kranich
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Computers
ISBN : 083890808X
From Librarian of Congress, James Billington, to founding director of the Center for the Book, John Cole, the leading-edge information specialists of the day share their insights on the role libraries play in advancing democracy.
Author : Natalie Greene Taylor,Karen Kettnich,Ursula Gorham,Paul T. Jaeger
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781839825989
Libraries and the Global Retreat of Democracy focuses on how libraries coordinate their work in political and information literacy and how these efforts can be improved, the recommendations and examples within which will serve as inspiration and motivation to its readers.
Author : Sam Popowich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Libraries
ISBN : 1634000870
Taking a broadly Marxist approach, Confronting the Democratic Discourse of Librarianship traces the connections between library history and the larger history of capitalist development.
Author : Ragnar Audunson,Herbjørn Andresen,Cicilie Fagerlid,Erik Henningsen,Hans-Christoph Hobohm,Henrik Jochumsen,Håkon Larsen,Tonje Vold
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110636628
Libraries, archives and museums have traditionally been a part of the public sphere's infrastructure. They have been so by providing public access to culture and knowledge, by being agents for enlightenment and by being public meeting places in their communities. Digitization and globalization poses new challenges in relation to upholding a sustainable public sphere. Can libraries, archives and museums contribute in meeting these challenges?
Author : John Buschman
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780810885295
Library marketing and advertising in schools are now very widespread practices. Since libraries and schools have been strongly linked to economic performance, adopting marketing and advertising techniques into them is often seen as a natural extension of that linkage. But should that be the case? John Buschman argues that as we shape and guide our educative institutions, we should carefully consider the consequences. In Libraries, Classrooms, and the Interests of Democracy: Marking the Limits of Neoliberalism, Dr. Buschman details the connections between our educative institutions and democracy, and the resources within democratic theory reflecting on the tensions between marketing, advertising, consumption, and democracy. Drawing on wide scholarship to explore some of the history of democratic theory and its intertwinements with capitalism, the author helps the reader think about how democracies can deal with the challenges of this current historical phase. The complex arguments of de Tocqueville, Dewey, Marx, and many others help clarify how the market has pierced classrooms and libraries with advertising and marketing—and why this is of concern in the interests of democracy. In this volume, Buschman provides a history of marketing and advertising and their entanglements with democracy, education, and libraries. He then engages Democratic Theory and the framework it provides to critique neoliberalism’s influences. A final chapter traces the trajectory of neoliberalism and educative institutions on our democracy. Throughout, the book makes clear that issues concerning public educative institutions in a democracy are political. A provocative and engaging book, Libraries, Classrooms, and the Interests of Democracy should be required reading for anyone interested in the challenges facing libraries today.
Author : Ed D'Angelo
Publisher : Library Juice Press, LLC
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781936117239
Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library is a philosophical and historical analysis of how the rise of consumerism has led to the decline of the original mission of public libraries to sustain and promote democracy through civic education. Through a reading of historical figures such as Plato, Helvetius, Rousseau, and John Stuart Mill, the book shows how democracy and even capitalism were originally believed to depend upon the moral and political education that public libraries (and other institutions of rational public discourse) could provide. But as capitalism developed in the 20th century it evolved into a postmodern consumerism that replaced democracy with consumerism and education with entertainment. Public libraries have mistakenly tried to remain relevant by shadowing the rise of consumerism, but have instead contributed to the rise of a new barbarism and the decline of democracy.
Author : Nancy C. Kranich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Freedom of information
ISBN : 0838999190
During World War II when the future of democracy was uncertain, Franklin D. Roosevelt described libraries as ''the great symbols of the freedom of the mind, '' ''essential to the functioning of a democratic society.'' Kranich begins this new collection of essays with Roosevelt's sentiment in mind. From Librarian of Congress, James Billington, to founding director of the Center for the Book, John Cole, the leading-edge information specialists of the day share their insights on the role libraries play in advancing democracy. One of the few institutions in the world where people have free access t.
Author : American Library Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UIUC:30112060168629
Author : Natalie Greene Taylor,Karen Kettnich,Ursula Gorham,Paul T. Jaeger
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781839825965
Libraries and the Global Retreat of Democracy focuses on how libraries coordinate their work in political and information literacy and how these efforts can be improved, the recommendations and examples within which will serve as inspiration and motivation to its readers.
Author : Wayne A. Wiegand
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780190248000
Challenges conventional thinking and top-down definitions, instead drawing on the library user's perspective to argue that the public library's most important function is providing commonplace reading materials and public space. Challenges a professional ethos about public libraries and their responsibilities to fight censorship and defend intellectual freedom. Demonstrates that the American public library has been (with some notable exceptions) a place that welcomed newcomers, accepted diversity, and constructed community since the end of the 19th century. Shows how stories that cultural authorities have traditionally disparaged- i.e. books that are not "serious"- have often been transformative for public library users.
Author : Benjamin Barber
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0520242335
"One of the chosen few: an enduring contribution to democratic thought."—Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University
Author : Arthur W. Hafner
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1993-10-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313286674
The free exchange of ideas is central to any democracy, and libraries are central to the free exchange of ideas. Hafner examines many of the issues at the heart of the library's role in a democratic society and demonstrates the practical importance of the library's democratic mission. In order to make informed decisions about acquisitions, librarians must be familiar with the legal and intellectual debates surrounding controversial material. The opening chapters of the volume provide an historical and theoretical context for the democratic role of the library by discussing issues related to canonicity. Later chapters discuss legal issues related to the library as a forum for free expression, the Richard R. Kreimer case, and the confidentiality of library records. Chapter authors thoroughly discuss issues that impact the daily functioning of the library. Their backgrounds in library and political science, law, management, sociology, and literary studies bring a fresh perspective to these controversial and hotly debated issues. The book will be of special interest to all practicing librarians, library trustees and administators, and to library science students.
Author : Margret Aldrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 1566894077
LFL history, quirky and poignant firsthand stories, a resource guide, and some of the most creative and inspired LFLs around.
Author : Andrew Carnegie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015011005082
Author : Eleanor Roosevelt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015033947683