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Journal Articles (Library & Information Studies)
Publications by faculty affiliated with the School of Library and Information Studies, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta.
Items in this Collection
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2008
The article presents an article by Kathleen de la Peña McCook entitled \"Workplace Speech in Libraries and Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.\" Her article adopts a policy which says everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression. This human right includes...
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2005
This paper is an introduction to progressive librarianship (also known in North America as socially responsible librarianship, activist librarianship, and radical librarianship, and in Europe as critical librarianship). Progressive librarianship is contextualized within a broad international...
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2008
This discussion paper touches on aspects of the philosophy of librarianship,moral and ethical aspects of librarianship, human rights, social action, socialjustice, citizen participation in social change, and professional ethics of librarianship.
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2007
El presente trabajo pretende mover a la reflexión y al debate y se basa, parcialmente, en un libro que publiqué el año pasado titulado Librarianship and Human Rights: A Twenty-first Century Guide (Oxford: Chandos, 2007); trata sobre diversos aspectos de la filosofía de la biblioteconomía, los...
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2010
This article builds on several prior informal publications that delve into my experiences teaching a course on intellectual freedom and social responsibility in librarianship in the context of the North American library and information studies curriculum. Here, I extend those discussions into a...
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1996
An exploration of american librarianship's treatment of the Library Bill of Rights in the 1960s. The author introduces two vying interpretations of the utility of the Library Bill of Rights, then examines the conflict sur rounding these interpretations in order to probe their impact on the...
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2013
IFLA adopted its Multicultural Library Manifesto in 2008. Meanwhile, contemporary scholarship in library and information studies suggests that North American Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS) graduates are not completing their degrees with a solid foundation in the core library...