Elaine Harger

Which Side Are You On?

Seven Social Responsibility Debates in American Librarianship, 1990-2015

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9780786494552
• ISBN-10: 0786494557
• Artikelnr.: 44548928

Autorenporträt

Elaine Harger is the librarian at Washington Middle School in Seattle. She served nine years as a Councilor-at-Large on the governing body of the American Library Association, has been very active in ALA's Social Responsibilities Round Table, and is a co-founder of the Progressive Librarians Guild.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1.
In Denial-Speaking about The Speaker 2.
Singing (and Silencing) Solidarity-Interrupting Legacies of Racism and the Anti-Apartheid "Book Boycott" 3.
Censuring a Censor-The Debate on Censorship in Israel and the Occupied Territories 4.
Speaking with One Voice, Strangling Others?-McDonald's and the Boy Scouts of America 5.
Abandoning Snowden...and Privacy?-Hegemony at Play in ALA 6.
Charting a New Course-ALA and Climate Crisis Works Cited Index