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book announcement: Librarianship and Human Rights
Date:
2007-08-30 08:42
book announcement
Librarianship and Human Rights: A 21st Century Guide, by Dr Toni Samek
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 institutions 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
books 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 book is primarily aimed at librarians, archivists, and documentalists.
A secondary market is related educators and students. In addition, the book
has general readership appeal for individuals, groups, and institutions
interested in ethical aspects of information work and that share an interest
in accommodating social transformations worldwide.
ISBN (paperback) 1843341468 Price £ 39.95
ISBN (hardback) 1843341980 Price £ 57.00
More information at
http://www.chandospublishing.com/catalogue/record_detail.php?recordID=82
