[BOAI] OA Journal: LIS Critique new issue & call for contributions (30 Dec 2010 deadline)
Zapopan Martín Muela Meza
zapopanmuela at gmail.com
Sun Nov 28 00:27:43 GMT 2010
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*Dear colleagues,*
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If you might not consider this information interesting for you, would you
please pass along to your students, faculty members, librarians, and any
other members of your Library and Information Science (LIS) community or
related?
Library and Information Science Critique : Journal of the Sciences of
Information Recorded in Documents
reaches its third volumen launching its double number:(volume 2, no. 3 &
volume 3, no. 1).
We invite you to read it and make contributions to the next numbers.
Deadline for the next issue: Dec 30, 2010 (Vol 3 No2).
Date of publication: Jan 30, 2011
English site:
http://sites.google.com/site/criticabibliotecologica/thirdissue
Thank you very much for your kind attention!
Sincerely yours,
Dr. Zapopan M. Muela-Meza, PhD, MLS
Director, Editor in Chief, and Founder, LIS Critique
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PhD Information Studies, University of Sheffiled, UK
MLS SUNY Buffalo, NY, USA
Assistant Professor, UANL, Mexico
**https://sites.google.com/site/zapopanmuela/cv_english
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*Table of Contents*
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*Open Access free of charge and direct of the full issue*
* | PDF<http://eprints.rclis.org/19328/1/critica.biblio.final.vol.2.no.2%26vol.3.no.1.pdf>|
** [Only in Spanish]** [110 pp.] [1.59 MB]**
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*Editorial*
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*Editorial*
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Library and Information Science Critique reaches its third volumen launching
its double number (volume 2, no. 3 & volume 3, no. 1), by: Zapopan Martín
Muela-Meza (MEXICO)
|full text pdf<http://eprints.rclis.org/19375/1/c.b.vol2no2-vol3no1.muela-meza.edi_eng.pdf>
| [English version]*
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Articles*
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*The social class struggles concept with an interdisciplinary approach: a
paramount concept for research in library and information science (LIS), **by:
Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza (MEXICO)**, p. 8. ** *
* |full text pdf<http://eprints.rclis.org/19329/1/c.b.vol.2.no.2%26vol.3.no.1.muela-meza.art.pdf>
| [Original in English]*
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Abstract
This paper analyses the social class struggles concept with an
interdisciplinary approach to be used by theorists and practitioners of
library and information science (LIS). This concept emerged as part of the
theoretical framework employed by the author in his doctoral thesis
(Muela-Meza, 2010): An Application of Community Profiling to Analyse
Community Information Needs, and Providers: Perceptions from the People of
the Broomhall Neighbourhood of Sheffield, UK. This concept is complemented
from philosophy (Marx and Engels, [1848] 1976a), and the natural sciences
(Hauser, 2006; Sagan and Druyan, 1992), and it served the author to
understand better the bigger dimensions of the underlying issues behind
social classes and human conflicts. It also served to understand better the
contradictions between people (e.g. LIS users with contradictory and
mutually exclusive information needs to be provided by libraries and other
institutions of information recorded in documents), and how these intensify
when these are interrelated with the social class they belong to
(Muela-Meza, 2007). This paper also criticises some competing views whose
proponents by pretending fallaciously and deceitfully to deny the presence
of social class divides in society, such as those rhetorical ploys of
post-modernism that propose capitalist-class-driven ideologues of “community
cohesion” based on “social capital” (Putnam, 1999). It shows evidence of how
those followers (e.g. Pateman, 2006; Contreras Contreras, 2004; Bryson,
Usherwood and Proctor, 2003) of capitalist-class ideologues, by doing so
they aligned their discourse to that of dominance hierarchies and hegemony
against working class people, in LIS and other sciences, and the humanities.
It also criticises the postmodern pseudoscience because it pretends to
undermine the logical rationality fundamental in LIS and all other sciences.
It recommends that LIS theorists and practitioners employ the social class
struggles concept as configured here in order to understand better
contradictions, conflicts, and struggles within LIS theory and practice, and
also to search for broader epistemological aims such as justice and
wisdom (Fleissner
and Hofkirchner, 1998), concealed by the capitalist or bourgeois and middle
classes for their benefit against working class.
Keywords
Sciences of Information Recorded in Documents; Library and Information
Science (LIS) -- Epistemology; LIS -- Methodology; social class; social
class struggles; dominance hierarchies; submission hierarchies; hegemony;
critical and sceptical thinking; logical fallacies; rhetorical ploys.
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*Banning of reading in Cordoba (Argentina). Elements for its study, **by:
Federico Zeballos (ARGENTINA)**, p. 37.*
* |full text pdf | [Only in Spanish]*
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Abstract
This work “The banning of reading in Córdoba. Elements for its study” intents
to provide elements for the knowledge about the mechanism of banning of
reading in the Córdoba’s libraries during the recent past. Are presented
several cases of censorship in different type of libraries: university,
public, school, etc. Besides are included two cases of public burning of
“banner books” in this city. The investigation has may testimonies of
librarians, photographies, institutionals resolutions, regulations notes,
etc.
Keywords
Córdoba; reading; libraries; censorship; dictatorship; destruction of book;
burning books; banned books.
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*Universidades, bibliotecas, imprentas y cárceles: espacios de educación,
lectura y obra teórica del intelectual revolucionario del
proletariado,** **por:
Felipe Meneses Tello (MÉXICO)**, p. 52.*
* |full text pdf<http://eprints.rclis.org/19354/1/c.b.vol.2.no.2-vol.3.no.1.meneses.pdf>
| [Only in Spanish]*
* Abstract
The author analyzes in this article (“Universities, libraries, presses, and
jails: spaces of education, reading, and theoretical work of the
revolutionary proletarian intellectual”) the main institutional
(universities, libraries, presses, and jail) resources that revolutionary
proletarian intellectuals have used throughout their lives to study,
research, and produce a large number of bibliographic tools. In this way,
instruction and theoretical possession by the proletarian intelligentsia can
be thought about from a documentary context, characterized by specific
situations: secrecy, persecution, imprisonment, and exile, among other
possibilities.
Key Words
Intellectual revolutionaries, Proletariat, Universities, Libraries, Presses,
Jails.
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*Ensayos*
*Tendencias conformistas en el discurso y en la realidad laboral de los
bibliotecarios en México**, **por: José Ángel González Castillo; Carlos
Alberto Martínez Hernández (MÉXICO)**, p. 64.*
* |full text pdf<http://eprints.rclis.org/19353/1/c.b.vol.2.no.2%26vol.3.no.1.gonzalez-martinez.pdf>
| [Only in Spanish]*
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Abstract
This paper criticizes a rooted tendency and attitude of conformism that has
been exposed both in library practice and debate. It also criticizes the
enthusiast acceptance of the dominant establishment and the active defense
of capitalistic impositions that are systematically published in LIS
documents, and implemented in library routinary strategies through all the
levels of LIS practice. It also criticizes various LIS institutions ranging
from the General Direction of Libraries of the Mexican National Network of
Public Libraries, until the LIS schools that foster such conformist speech
in LIS that tramples on labour rights, that triviliazes LIS curricula and
that abandons this discipline in a theoretical and critical void.
Keywords
Mexico; Library and Information Science (LIS); conformist librarianship;
pro-capitalistic driven librarianship; critique to capitalism; critique to
conformist librarianship.
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*¿Y si el bibliotecario fuera académico? La problemática laboral de los
bibliotecarios que trabajan en universidades públicas estatales**, **por:
Horacio Cárdenas Zardoni (MÉXICO)**, p. 78.*
* |full text pdf<http://eprints.rclis.org/19344/1/c.b.vol.2.no.2%26vol.3.no.1.cardenas.pdf>
| [Only in Spanish]*
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Abstract
The librarian is an important position for the functioning of libraries
belonging to institutions of higher education. Library personnel is in
charge of planning, organizing, management, operation and giving
information services in the universities, it is a fundamental part of the
teaching/learning process, in grade and postgraduate education, of the
knowledge generation activities, and culture diffusion. The university
librarian plays an instrumental part in the university curriculum, and a
relevant role in the rhetoric of society of information/society of
knowledge, offering from beginners instruction to specialized searches that
facilitate the scientific work, technological development and
contextualization of these in the academic information universe. Despite of
all this and of being in charge of guarding, capitalization and exploitation
of important economic investments on the part of the Government of the
Republic and the institutions of higher education in Mexico, the librarian
is not considered an academician, merely an administrative worker, without
the recognition and advantages of the first, and without the betterment
possibilities of the second.
Key words
University libraries; university librarians; librarians; academic personnel;
administrative personnel; salary tabulators; universities; institutions of
higher education.
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*Libros de la UNAM a través de Google: dos años después**, **por: Gonzalo
Clemente Lara Pacheco (MÉXICO)**, p. 104.*
* |full text pdf<http://eprints.rclis.org/15312/1/c.b.vol.1.no.1.art.muela-meza.pdf>
** |** [Only in Spanish]*
*Abstract*
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Google corporation digitizes books published by the Mexico National
Autonomous University (UNAM) since 2007. The corporation agreed not to
charge anything for this service; instead, it was informed through some
communication media that UNAM would be benefited in two senses: a) books
could be consulted (just a few pages) in the site of Google books, and b)
the university community would have access to the digitized titles, in full
text versions, through the libraries of UNAM. As it will be shown, more than
two years after this project began, UNAM community still does not have
access to the full text version of the books published by UNAM that Google
digitsize.
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*Keywords*
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Google, digital library, National Autonomous University of Mexico,
agreements
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Dr. Zapopan Martín Muela Meza,
PhD<http://eprints.rclis.org/18649/13/Dr._Zapopan_Mart%C3%ADn_Muela_Meza_PhD_Certificate.pdf>,
University of Sheffield, UK; MLS, SUNY Buffalo
CANDIDATE AS NATIONAL RESEARCHER, MEXICAN NATIONAL COUNCIL OF SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY (CONACTY) CANDIDATO A INVESTIGADOR NACIONAL
SNI<http://www.conacyt.gob.mx/SNI/2010/Documents/SNI_Resultados_Ingreso_2010.pdf>
NATIONAL SYSTEM OF RESEARCHERS (SISTEMA NACIONAL DE INVESTIGADORES), CONACYT
(2010-2013)
Candidate as National Researcher, Mexican National Council for Science
and Technology
http://www.conacyt.gob.mx/SNI/2010/Documents/SNI_Resultados_Ingreso_2010.pdf
Profesor con Perfil PROMEP (SEP) 2009-2012 (PROMEP Profile Professor)
Profesor Asociado A Tiempo Completo (Non-Tenure LIS Assistant Professor)
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
Ciudad Universitaria, San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo Leon, MEXICO
zapopanmuela[nospam]gmail.com
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