Book Description
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 : Nancy Kranich
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 12,40 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780838908082
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
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,51 MB
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1839825987
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 :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,87 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Libraries
ISBN : 9781634000871
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
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 27,21 MB
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 311063662X
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 : Ed D'Angelo
Publisher : Library Juice Press, LLC
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 41,18 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1936117231
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 : American Library Association
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Libraries
ISBN :
Author : Margret Aldrich
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,10 MB
Release : 2015
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 9781566894074
LFL history, quirky and poignant firsthand stories, a resource guide, and some of the most creative and inspired LFLs around.
Author : Eleanor Roosevelt
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 1936
Category : Libraries
ISBN :
Author : Nancy C. Kranich
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,71 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Freedom of information
ISBN : 9780838999196
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 : Andrew Carnegie
Publisher :
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 1886
Category : United States
ISBN :