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The dialectic of academic librarianship : a critical approach /

Examines the academic library's position as a culturally and historically situated producer and curator of knowledge and its instrumental role in driving social reproduction and the status quo.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bales, Stephen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Sacramento, California : Library Juice Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Academic libraries > Aims and objectives > United States.
Academic libraries > United States > Sociological aspects.
Academic libraries > Social aspects > United States.
Academic librarians > United States > Attitudes.
Academic librarians > Professional ethics > United States.
Libraries and colleges > United States.
Education, Higher > Economic aspects > United States.
Dialectical materialism.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : dialectics and the modern capitalist academic library
  • Understanding the MCAL non-dialectically
  • Dialectical material monism as alternative way to understand the MCAL
  • The MCAL and ideology
  • The counter-hegemonic academic librarian
  • The transition of quantity into quality as a tool for counter-hegemony
  • Conclusions (and beginnings).