Torres-Reyes, José Antonio Consideraciones críticas sobre el prestigio y la diginidad personal y profesional de los bibliotecarios. LIS Critique (Library and Information Science Critique): Journal of the Sciences of Information Recorded in Documents (Crítica Bibliotecológica: Revista de las Ciencias de la Información Documental), 2012, vol. 4, n. 2, pp. 8-19. [Journal article (Paginated)]
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English abstract
Title: Critical considerations about the personal and profesional prestige and dignity of librarians This paper analyses some reflections about the professional prestige and dignity of librarianship in the state of Nuevo Leon, Mexico. It analyses and criticises: a) the lack of professional categories for librarians with B.A.s or Masters degrees in Nuevo Leon, in contrast, for example with Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM); it also assesses how several librarians with B.A. undergraduate degrees from the Mexican National Institute of Social Security (IMSS) the national health service system) in the Nuevo Leon state-wide fought to obtain a Professional B.A. Undergraduate Degre Librarian Labor Cagegory status to be signed and included in the labor IMSS union collective contract and how eventually they won; b) it also criticises the repressive and dictatorial attitudes on the side of the top managerial and academic mafias from the major Nuevo Leon universities who do not allow free and equal academic and professional development opportunities of the vast majorities of librarians with or without B.A. degrees and whom also censor their freedom of expression and thought in Nuevo Leon librarianship; c) it advocates for librarians to have an honest service mystique as if they were doing a sort of "apostleship" against the "monetarist" and "mercenarist" practices that currently practice librarians in Nuevo Leon state. As for the library guild activities, it criticises the demogogical charlatanism and opportunism of guilds such as AMBAC (standing from the Mexico-wide Mexican Library Association, Nuevo Leon chapter), where their leaders only take advantage of the ineptitudes of the three levels of the Mexican government (municipal, state, and federal) on library issues, and they use the natural disasters against libraries or librarians by appealing to people’s sentimentalisms just to appear themselves in the picture and in the press, but without analysing, criticising and denouncing the deep structural faults underneath the Mexican State, and from all the three levels of the Mexican governments.
Spanish abstract
Esta ponencia expone unas reflexiones sobre el prestigio y la dignidad profesional de la bibliotecología en el estado de Nuevo León, México. Analiza y critica: a) la falta de categorías profesionales en Nuevo León en contraste con la UNAM; menciona también como varios bibliotecologos del IMSS Nuevo Leon lucharon porque se tipificara en el contrato colectivo la categoria de Bibliotecologo Profesional y cuya lucha ganaron; b) las actitudes represoras y dictatoriales por parte de las mafias administrativas y academicas de las principales universidades que no permiten la superacion de las amplias mayorias de bibliotecologos y que censuran la libertad de expresion y pensamiento en Nuevo Leon; c) aboga porque los bibliotecologos deban tener mistica de servicio como si se tratara de un "apostolado" en contra del "monetarismo" o "mercenarismo" que en la actualidad mueve a los bibliotecologos nuevoleoneses. En el aspecto gremial critica la charlataneria y oportunimo demagogico de gremios como los de AMBAC de Nuevo Leon, que se aprovechan de las ineptitudes de los gobiernos en todos los niveles en materia bibliotecaria y utilizan las desgracias naturales apelando a sentimentalismos de la gente solo para salir en la foto y en la prensa, pero sin analizar, criticar ni denunciar las fallas estructurales de fondo del Estado mexicano y de los tres niveles de gobierno.
| Item type: | Journal article (Paginated) |
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| Keywords: | Keywords Critical librarianship; education; post-graduate studies; labor movement; Mexico - library associations; Nuevo Leon; Mexican Library Association (AMBAC). Palabras clave Bibliotecología crítica; educación; estudios de posgrado; laborismo; Mexico -- asociaciones bibliotecarias; Nuevo Leon; AMBAC. |
| Subjects: | A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. > AB. Information theory and library theory. B. Information use and sociology of information > BC. Information in society. B. Information use and sociology of information > BE. Information economics. B. Information use and sociology of information > BF. Information policy D. Libraries as physical collections. > DD. Academic libraries. F. Management. > FE. Personnel management. |
| Depositing user: | Zapopan Martín Muela-Meza |
| Date deposited: | 15 May 2012 |
| Last modified: | 02 Oct 2014 12:22 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10760/16984 |
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