Public Libraries and Marxism
Auteurs : Pateman Joe, Pateman John
Public Libraries and Marxism provides a Marxist analytical framework for understanding public libraries and presents a set of proposals for transforming the capitalist libraries of today.
Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of this Marxist framework, the authors also provide a critical examination of the history, theory and practice of libraries in the Soviet Union and North Korea. Considering what a Marxist library service would look like in the Western capitalist countries of today, Pateman and Pateman synthesise the insights provided throughout the book into a set of Marxist proposals designed to promote the transformation of contemporary Western public librarianship. These proposals suggest how Western public libraries can change their organisation and practices ? their strategies, structures, systems and culture ? in order to best serve those with the most needs, particularly as society evolves in response to new challenges.
Public Libraries and Marxism will be relevant for scholars and students of library and information science, history, politics and sociology. Outlining the rudiments of a Marxist library service that should be applicable around the world, the book will also appeal to library practitioners who want to develop libraries in a community-led and needs-based direction.
Joe Pateman is a doctoral candidate in politics at the University of Nottingham, UK. Joe’s research interests include Marxism-Leninism, democratic theory and the political economy of race. Joe is the co-author of Managing Cultural Change in Public Libraries: Marx, Maslow, and Management (2019, Routledge).
John Pateman is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Librarian of Thunder Bay Public Library in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. He was previously Head of Libraries in Hackney, Merton and Lincolnshire in the UK. He is the joint author of Public Libraries and Social Justice (2010, Routledge), Developing Community Led Public Libraries (2013, Routledge) and Managing Cultural Change in Public Libraries: Marx, Maslow, and Management (2019, Routledge).
Date de parution : 01-2023
13.8x21.6 cm
Date de parution : 05-2021
13.8x21.6 cm
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Mots-clés :
Public Library; Kim Il Sung; Public Library Service; National Library; Juche Idea; North Korean; Monolithic Ideological System; Public Library System; Traditional Library; Thunder Bay; DDC Scheme; Eternal President; Full Construction; Vladimir Ilyich; People’s Libraries; Race Hate Capital; Public Library Function; Workmen’s Institute; Vice Versa; Western Marxism; Village Reading Rooms; Public Libraries Today; Study House; Dialectical Materialism; South Wales Coal Fields