Which Side Are You On?
Subtitle: Seven Social Responsibility Debates in American Librarianship, 1990-2015
By: Elaine Harger
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780786494552; 9781476624716
Subjects: Librarians; Library science; Libraries and society; American Library Association; Political activity; History
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-213) and index.
Table of contents: title: In denial : speaking about The speaker; title: Singing (and silencing) solidarity : interrupting legacies of racism and the anti-apartheid "book boycott"; title: Censuring a censor : the debate on censorship in Israel and the Occupied Territories; title: Speaking with one voice, strangling others : McDonald's and the Boy Scouts of America; title: Abandoning Snowden ... and privacy? : Hegemony at play in ALA; title: Charting a new course; title: ALA and climate crisis.