and Issues: Leadership
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Librarianship: Philosophy
Values
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- ISBN 9781591583875
- Weight: 198g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2008
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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An informed citizenry, capable of informed participation, is one of the principles on which U.S. democracy is based, its premise represented in Constitutional principles of intellectual freedom. To what extent does participation in the political process and civic engagement require access to information representing various viewpoints and perspectives? And in turn, how do issues of race, ethnicity and culture, language, economic disparity, and geographic isolation limit such access? Mark Winston offers a cross section of individual, collective, and organizational efforts—from both ends of the political spectrum—to control information access in the hopes of protecting society from itself. Beginning with Brown v. Board of Education, he considers the roleplayed by equality of educational opportunity and agencies such as the library as essential influences on public discourse and sound decision-making.
Mark Winston, associate professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill since 2006, will become assistant chancellor and director of the John Cotton Dana Library at Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, effective September 1. Prior to his UNC position, Winston taught for seven years at the Rutgers School of Communication, Information and Library Studies on the New Brunswick campus. Winston succeeds Lynn Mullins, who retired after 20 years as Dana Library director.
