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Librarianship and Human Rights Toni Samek (University of Alberta, Canada)

Librarianship and Human Rights By Toni Samek (University of Alberta, Canada)

Librarianship and Human Rights by Toni Samek (University of Alberta, Canada)


Summary

In this book, the reader will encounter a myriad of urgent library and information voices reflecting contemporary local, national, and transnational calls to action on conflicts generated by failures to acknowledge human rights, by struggles for recognition and representation, by social exclusion, and the library institution's role therein.

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Librarianship and Human Rights Summary

Librarianship and Human Rights: A Twenty-First Century Guide by Toni Samek (University of Alberta, Canada)

In this book, the reader will encounter a myriad of urgent library and information voices reflecting contemporary local, national, and transnational calls to action on conflicts generated by failures to acknowledge human rights, by struggles for recognition and representation, by social exclusion, and the library institution's role therein. These voices infuse library and information work worldwide into social movements and the global discourse of human rights, they depict library and information workers as political actors, they offer some new possibilities for strategies of resistance, and they challenge networks of control. This book's approach to library and information work is grounded in practical, critical, and emancipatory terms; social action is a central pattern. This book is conceived as a direct challenge to the notion of library neutrality, especially in the present context of war, revolution, and social change. This book, for example, locates library and information workers as participants and interventionists in social conflicts. The strategies for social action worldwide documented in this book were selected because of their connection to elements of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) that relate particularly to core library values, information ethics, and global information justice.

Librarianship and Human Rights Reviews

...a necessary, important and long-overdue book., SHINE Journal This is by far the best book I have read on librarianship for a very long time., John Pateman, Head of Libraries, Learning and Inclusion, Lincolnshire County Council Inspiring, affirming, activating, energizing, I ran out of superlatives to describe this book. If you are a library worker who wants to change the world, read it today - because tomorrow may already be too late., John Pateman, Head of Libraries, Learning and Inclusion, Lincolnshire County Council

About Toni Samek (University of Alberta, Canada)

Dr Toni Samek is Associate Professor at the School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada). Toni chairs the Canadian Library Association's Advisory Committee on Intellectual Freedom and is an Advisory Board member of the international group Information for Social Change. Toni's teaching, research, and service interests include critical librarianship, intercultural information ethics, global information justice, human rights, intellectual freedom, and academic freedom.

Table of Contents

Part 1 The Rhetoric: An urgent context for twenty-first century librarianship; Human rights, contestations and moral responsibilities of library and information workers. Part 2 The Reality: Practical strategies for social action; Prevalent manifestations of social action applied to library and information work; Specific forms of social action used in library and information work for social change.

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CIN1843341468VG
9781843341468
1843341468
Librarianship and Human Rights: A Twenty-First Century Guide by Toni Samek (University of Alberta, Canada)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Woodhead Publishing Ltd
20070131
232
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