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- Title
LIBRARIANSHIP AS A RADICAL PROFESSION ing.ones.
- Authors
Klein, Naomi
- Abstract
The article focuses on the globalization and also discusses the librarianship as a radical profession. The official discourse about globalization is usually about things, stuff: goods and services being traded across borders. But it is also about people-the effect of that movement of goods and services on people. And one side effect of globalization is spread of highly infectious diseases like SARS. It reminds that all the people whether they are living in rich countries or poor ones, are human beings, regardless of national borders. So the question of globalization is not it is good or bad, but it is how are we going to use it. Librarians in the United States are on the frontline of attacks on privacy and civil liberties. It is partly due to implementation of the Patriot Act. Law enforcement officials can demand to see a record of books, the library users have taken out and the Internet sites they have visited, without so much as claiming probable cause. It has actually come down to this: professional archivists, the people who value information and history most, are driven to shred their own records for fear of how they could be abused. They cannot even tell each other if they have been subjected to one of these searches.
- Subjects
GLOBALIZATION; INTERNATIONAL relations; LIBRARIES; LIBRARY science; PROFESSIONS; CIVIL rights
- Publication
Progressive Librarian, 2004, Issue 23, p46
- ISSN
1052-5726
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
Naomi Klein