Four thesis for Critical Library and Information Studies: a manifesto

Cope, Jonathan and Martin Valdunciel, M. Engracia Four thesis for Critical Library and Information Studies: a manifesto., 2018 [Preprint]

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English abstract

This essay proposes four theses for a Critical Library and Information Studies (CLIS) research agenda. The author argues that a normative commitment to libraries as social institutions should guide any future CLIS research agenda, that the natural sciences are a poor model for CLIS research, that value neutrality should be abandoned, and that any CLIS project should propose alternative.

Spanish abstract

Este ensayo propone cuatro tesis para una agenda de investigación de Estudios Críticos de Biblioteconomía y Documentación (Critical Library and Information Studies. CLIS). El autor argumenta que un compromiso normativo con las bibliotecas como instituciones sociales debería guiar cualquier futura agenda de investigación de CLIS, que las ciencias naturales son un modelo pobre para la investigación de CLIS, que el valor de la neutralidad debería abandonarse y que cualquier proyecto de CLIS debería proponer alternativas.

Item type: Preprint
Keywords: Critical librarianship; neutrality; positivism; critical discursive practices; Biblioteconomía crítica; neutralidad; positivismo; prácticas discursivas críticas; Biblioteconomía crítica; neutralidad; positivismo; prácticas discursivas críticas;
Subjects: A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. > AA. Library and information science as a field.
A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. > AB. Information theory and library theory.
A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. > AC. Relationship of LIS with other fields .
Depositing user: M. Engracia Martín Valdunciel
Date deposited: 26 Sep 2018 08:38
Last modified: 26 Sep 2018 08:38
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/33401

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