Libraries & democracy : the cornerstones of liberty /

During World War II when the future of democracy was uncertain, Franklin D. Roosevelt described libraries as ''the great symbols of the freedom of the mind, '' ''essential to the functioning of a democratic society.'' Kranich begins this new collection of essa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kranich, Nancy C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : American Library Association, 2001.
Temas:
Libraries and society > United States.
Libraries and state > United States.
Information policy > United States.
Freedom of information > United States.
Internet access for library users > United States.
Bibliothèques et société > États-Unis.
Bibliothèques > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Information > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Liberté d'information > États-Unis.
Internet dans les bibliothèques > États-Unis.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Library & Information Science > General.
Freedom of information.
Information policy.
Internet access for library users.
Libraries and society.
Libraries and state.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Historic and theoretical overview of the role of libraries and democracy: Reconsidering Arsenals of a democratic culture; Balancing symbol and practice / Frederick Stielow
  • Imagining fairness; Equality and equity of access in search of democracy / Jorge Reina Schement
  • Poverty, democracy, and public libraries / Kathleen de la Pena McCook
  • Libraries and civil society: Libraries and civil society / Joan C. Durrance, Karen Pettigrew, Michael Jourdan, Karen Scheuerer
  • Civic librarianship / Ronald B. McCabe
  • Information literacy for the twenty-first-century citizen / Elizabeth L. (Betty) Marcoux
  • Libraries, technology, and democracy: Libraries, the Internet, and democracy / Nancy C. Kranich
  • Library Internet access controversy and democracy / Susan B. Kretchmer
  • Libraries, the new media, and the political process / Nancy C. Kranich
  • Sex, democracy, and videotape / Randy Pitman
  • Libraries supporting democratic information policy: In support of democracy; The library role in public access to government information / Anne Heanue
  • Information ethics and government power; from the White House e-mail to the Stasi files / Thomas S. Blanton
  • Libraries; where the first amendment lives / Paul K. McMasters
  • First amendment, libraries, and democracy / Susan B. Kretchmer
  • Copyright and democracy; its implications for the public's right to know / Siva Vaidhyananthan
  • Library of Congress and democracy: Library of Congress and the democratic spirit / John Y. Cole
  • Library of Congress and the widening horizons of democracy building / James H. Billington
  • Library advocacy for democracy: Advocating for America's right to know / Patricia Glass Schuman
  • Advocacy for democracy I; the role of the American Library Association / William R. Gordon
  • Advocacy for democracy II; the role of the Swedish Library Association / Joneta Belfrage.

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