Social Justice and Library Work: A Guide to Theory and Practice by Bales New,#

Social Justice and Library WorkA Guide to Theory and Practice\nAuthor(s): Stephen Lyn Bales\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Elsevier Science & Technology, United Kingdom\nImprint: Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd\nISBN-13: 9780081017555, 978-0081017555\nSynopsis\nAlthough they may not have always been explicitly stated, library work has always had normative goals. Until recently, such goals have largely been abstract; they are things like knowledge creation, education, forwarding science, preserving history, supporting democracy, and safeguarding civilization. The modern spirit of social and cultural critique, however, has focused our attention on the concrete, material relationships that determine human potentiality and opportunity, and library workers are increasingly seeing the institution of the library, as well as library work, as embedded in a web of relations that extends beyond the librarys traditional sphere of influence. In light of this critical consciousness, more and m.