Librarianship and social responsibility

  • Alejandro E. Parada Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliotecológicas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34096/ics.i1.1046
Keywords: Librarianship-Social Responsibility, Theory of Librarianship, Public Libraries

Abstract

This paper critically examines the relations between librarianship and social responsibility, it does so in a number of ways; first the dominance of information technology in library and information science; then examines the discussion between "pragmatism" versus social responsibility; finally the contribution reports the disciplinary growth of our profession as a social scientific discipline. In this way, the author argues for the integration of this different trends in librarianship, but without missing our social responsibility.

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Parada, A. E. (1). Librarianship and social responsibility. Información, Cultura Y Sociedad, (1), 65-75. https://doi.org/10.34096/ics.i1.1046
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No 1 (1999)
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