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The New Inquisition: Understanding and Managing Intellectual Freedom Challenges de James LaRue

The New Inquisition: Understanding and Managing Intellectual Freedom Challenges

Autor James LaRue
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 2007

În peisajul actual al biblioteconomiei, unde numărul provocărilor la adresa colecțiilor de carte atinge cifre record, The New Inquisition aduce o perspectivă pragmatică și proactivă asupra modului în care libertatea intelectuală poate fi apărată fără a sacrifica relația cu comunitatea. Remarcăm faptul că James LaRue nu se limitează la prezentarea unor principii abstracte, ci oferă un set de instrumente concrete pentru transformarea potențialilor „adversari” în aliați, punând accent pe înțelegerea motivațiilor individuale din spatele tentativelor de cenzură.

Suntem de părere că valoarea acestui volum rezidă în experiența directă a autorului ca director de bibliotecă. Găsim în text o combinație rară de umor și rigoare profesională, aplicată pe situații tensionate de pe „linia întâi”. Față de lucrarea sa anterioară, On Censorship, care analiza fenomenul într-o notă mai largă, sau Public Library Collections in the Balance, care se concentra pe echilibrarea colecțiilor, noul volum oferă un ghid pas cu pas pentru menținerea integrității profesionale în fața realităților dure ale contestărilor publice.

Cititorii familiarizați cu Prepared Libraries, Empowered Teams de Becky Calzada vor aprecia în mod deosebit modul în care James LaRue extinde conceptul de pregătire a echipei către o strategie de comunicare externă mult mai nuanțată. În timp ce The Fight against Book Bans de Shannon M. Oltmann oferă o analiză cuprinzătoare a impactului cenzurii la nivel național, The New Inquisition se distinge prin focalizarea pe tactici individuale de gestionare a conflictelor și pe proceduri administrative care pot dezamorsa crizele înainte ca acestea să escaladeze. Este o resursă esențială pentru oricine dorește să înțeleagă nu doar „ce” se contestă, ci și „cum” să răspundă eficient, păstrând în același timp un climat de respect reciproc în spațiul public.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781591582854
ISBN-10: 1591582857
Pagini: 172
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Libraries Unlimited
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Această carte este indispensabilă bibliotecarilor și administratorilor de instituții culturale care se confruntă cu presiuni externe privind conținutul colecțiilor. Cititorul câștigă o strategie clară de comunicare și proceduri testate pentru a proteja libertatea de informare. Este un ghid practic care vă învață cum să rămâneți calmi și profesioniști în fața criticilor, transformând conflictele în oportunități de dialog comunitar, totul susținut de expertiza unui autor premiat în domeniu.

Descriere

How can you become an effective advocate for intellectual freedom and patron privacy while maintaining a positive relationship with diverse elements of your community? Drawing on his experience as library director, this author advocates assuming a proactive role in every library function, from collection building to community outreach. This approach helps you understand the people who challenge library materials-as individuals and as members of various groups-turning enemies into allies and building an intellectual, freedom-friendly community. You'll learn what materials get challenged and why and how you can effectively respond to challenges while meeting diverse community needs. Here are stories from the frontlines, practical guidelines on policies and procedures as well as common-sense tips on how to maintain your cool while dealing with specific groups or individuals-all presented with common sense and humor. If you have been struggling with challenges and wonder how you can uphold your ideals while dealing with harsh realities, this is the book you have been waiting for.

Recenzii

Public libraries must prepare for intellectual freedom challenges by instituting policies outlining their organizational procedure for reconsideration requests. With established policies and procedures in place, library staff can approach customer challenges with confidence and composure, while remembering to treat them the respect and dignity they deserve. The New Inquisition is recommended for all frontline library staff and highly recommended for library administrators and managers who respond to formal intellectual challenges.
James LaRue offers fresh advice on dealing with requests to pull books from public library collections. In an engaging anecdotal style, LaRue recounts numerous examples of real-life intellectual freedom challenges he has encountered during his years as director of a Colorado library system..LaRue advises preparation, but this book's most important contribution is its emphasis on the establishment of trust. LaRue;s most practical advice, and the approach that informs all aspects of this text, is, know your users...The New Inquisition is an entertaining and valuable read: LaRue's narrative voice is wholly likeable and reasonable. The book contains a good index and a short and very useful reference and resource list. It will make a good companion to other texts on the topic and is recommended for public libraries and academic libraries with a library studies program.
La Rue does what librarians do best--research. The book begins with a brief history of book censorship and moves to the origins of the Constitution and the Library Bill of Rights. With lively writing about relevant and current issues, the reader is engaged with example letters from concerned patrons provided. La Rue also includes Sample Request for Reconsideration forms and responses to past patron concerns, all of which are excellent resources for frontline librarians as well as the new generation of library students concerned about challenges to intellectual freedom.
This is a fresh, new and timely look at an old issue. LaRue puts a spirited case for dealing face-on with challenges - not being defensive, meeting the emotion, getting the tone right, offering alternatives, discussing the issues, following up the user's concerns, accepting that at times the matter will involve senior managers. Even though the context is U.S. public libraries, the issues here will translate into public libraries anywhere, and into school and children's libraries too. It is a real-life book about meeting challenges in an adult professional way.
Using his own experience, as well as his sense of humor, LaRue describes the kinds of challenges libraries typically face and the most effective ways to respond to them and even head them off. Dealing with intellectual freedom challenges may never become one of your favorite parts of the job.. [b]ut at least, armed with this book, you'll be better prepared
Reading the US Constitution periodically is a good idea, particularly while you are waiting for a special interest group bent on censorship to show up for a loud meeting. LaRue, a county-level director of libraries and therefore a battle-scarred veteran of the intellectual freedom wars, gives practical advice about resolving conflict with those who would limit access to certain information. He gives an historical perspective on the banning and burning of books, including the ever-present question of what children should be allowed to learn, the influence of certain religious and social groups, and the generation-driven aspect. With each he gives ways to find common ground and reasons to read together, and also lists ways to get the community involved in issues such as extending the network you already have, getting media involved, using your reputation and even working your way through the rubber chicken circuit.
[E]xamines the history of censorship, the fundamental role of libraries in defending freedom of information and the core documents of our profession..[a] sensible, practical approach to understanding and connecting with your community as a solid foundation to dealing with challenges.