Author : Nancy Kranich
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 26,61 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 : 28,25 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 : 14,33 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 : 33,68 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 : 27,36 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 : 39,83 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Libraries
ISBN :
Author : Margret Aldrich
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,1 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 : 24,1 MB
Release : 1936
Category : Libraries
ISBN :
Author : Jon Lebkowsky
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 21,38 MB
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1411631390
Are blogs and other emerging technologies changing the face of politics? Extreme Democracy is a collection of writings about the impact of technology on the political process. Authors include Steven Johnson, Joi Ito, David Weinberger, Jay Rosen, Mitch Ratcliffe, Jon Lebkowsky, danah boyd, and many others. Jon Lebkowsky discusses Extreme Democracy in an interview on the WELL, currently in progress.
Author : Jenny Andersson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,67 MB
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804772924
This book offers a detailed account of the way that social democracy today makes sense of capitalism. In particular, it challenges the idea that social democracy has gone "neoliberal," arguing that so-called Third Way policies seem to have brought out new aspects of a thoroughgoing social interventionism with roots deep in the history of social democracy. Author Jenny Andersson expertly develops the claim that what distinguishes today's social democracy from the past is the way that it equates cultural and social values with economic values, which in turn places a premium on individuals who are capable of succeeding in the knowledge economy. Offering an insightful study of Britain's New Labour and Sweden's SAP, and of the political cultural transformations that have taken place in those countries, this is the first book that looks seriously into how the economic, social, and cultural policies of contemporary social democracy fit together to form a particular understanding of capitalism and capitalist politics.
