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Which side are you on? : seven social responsibility debates in American librarianship, 1990-2015 / Elaine Harger.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781476624716
  • 1476624712
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Which side are you on?DDC classification:
  • 020.973 23
LOC classification:
  • Z716.4 .H367 2016eb
Other classification:
  • LAN000000
Online resources:
Contents:
In denial : speaking about The speaker -- Singing (and silencing) solidarity : interrupting legacies of racism and the anti-apartheid "book boycott" -- Censuring a censor : the debate on censorship in Israel and the Occupied Territories -- Speaking with one voice, strangling others : McDonald's and the Boy Scouts of America -- Abandoning Snowden ... and privacy : hegemony at play in ALA -- Charting a new course : ALA and climate crisis.
Summary: "Shattering any idea that librarianship is a politically neutral realm, this insider's account of seven debates from the floor of the American Library Association Council illustrates the mechanisms the governing body used to maintain the status quo on issues like racism, government surveillance and climate change. At play in each debate are rules of parliamentary procedure, appeals to authority, denial, and chastisement of librarians who pushed the ALA to make real its commitments to human rights and social justice. Providing a fascinating look at the Council's inner workings, the author parses debates concerning anti-apartheid boycotts; partnerships between ALA, McDonald's and the Boy Scouts of America; spying by the National Security Agency; censorship in Israel and the Occupied Territories; fossil fuel industry divestment; and the recent revival by ALA's Office of Intellectual Freedom of the infamous film The Speaker"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

In denial : speaking about The speaker -- Singing (and silencing) solidarity : interrupting legacies of racism and the anti-apartheid "book boycott" -- Censuring a censor : the debate on censorship in Israel and the Occupied Territories -- Speaking with one voice, strangling others : McDonald's and the Boy Scouts of America -- Abandoning Snowden ... and privacy : hegemony at play in ALA -- Charting a new course : ALA and climate crisis.

"Shattering any idea that librarianship is a politically neutral realm, this insider's account of seven debates from the floor of the American Library Association Council illustrates the mechanisms the governing body used to maintain the status quo on issues like racism, government surveillance and climate change. At play in each debate are rules of parliamentary procedure, appeals to authority, denial, and chastisement of librarians who pushed the ALA to make real its commitments to human rights and social justice. Providing a fascinating look at the Council's inner workings, the author parses debates concerning anti-apartheid boycotts; partnerships between ALA, McDonald's and the Boy Scouts of America; spying by the National Security Agency; censorship in Israel and the Occupied Territories; fossil fuel industry divestment; and the recent revival by ALA's Office of Intellectual Freedom of the infamous film The Speaker"--Provided by publisher.

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