Date : 2018
Type : Livre / Book
Langue / Language : anglais / English
ISBN : 978-1-6340-0030-7
EAN : 9781634000307
Bibliothèques -- Technologies de l'information et de la communication
Classification Dewey : 020.1
Résumé / Abstract : Over the past fifteen years, librarians have increasingly looked to theory as a means to destabilize normative discourses and practices within LIS, to engage in inclusive and non-authoritarian pedagogies, and to organize for social justice. “Critlib,” short for “critical librarianship,” is variously used to refer to a growing body of scholarship, an intellectual or activist movement within librarianship, an online community that occasionally organizes in-person meetings, and an informal Twitter discussion space active since 2014, identified by the #critlib hashtag. Critlib “aims to engage in discussion about critical perspectives on library practice” but it also seeks to bring “social justice principles into our work in libraries” (http://critlib.org/about/) [...]