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Subject: Journal LIS Critique published new issue
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 21:18:33 -0600
From: Zapopan Martín Muela Meza <zapopanmuela at GMAIL.COM>
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*Dear colleagues,*
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/*
*/Library and Information Science Critique : Journal of the Sciences of
Information Recorded in Documents/*
*//**reaches its third volumen
*
*launching its double number
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*(volume 2, no. 3 & volume 3, no. 1).*
**
*We invite you to read it and make contributions to the next numbers.*
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*Deadline for the next issue: Dec 30, 2010 (Vol 3 No2).*
*Date of publication: Jan 30, 2011
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*English site:*
*http://sites.google.com/site/criticabibliotecologica/thirdissue
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**
*Thank you for your kind attention!*
Happy Thanksgiving Day!
**
*Sincerely,*
**
*Dr. Zapopan M. Muela-Meza*
*PhD Information Studies, University of Sheffiled, UK*
*Assistant Professor, UANL, Mexico*
*Director, Editor in Chief, and Founder, LIS Critique
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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]**
*
*Editorial*
* *
*Editorial*
*
*/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*
* *
*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]**
*
*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.
*
* *
*Banning of reading in Cordoba (Argentina). Elements for its study,
**by: Federico Zeballos (ARGENTINA)**, p. 37.*
* *|full text pdf** |** [Only in Spanish]**
*
*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.
*
*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.
*
* *
*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.
*
* *
*¿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*
* *
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.
* *
*Keywords*
* *
Google, digital library, National Autonomous University of Mexico,
agreements
*Editorial*
*/ /*
*/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)***
* *
*Dear reader,*
* *
*/Library and Information Science Critique: Journal of the Sciences of
Information /**brings you its third double number (corresponding to its
number 2 of the volume 2 and the number 1 of the volume 3). *We want to
give you an apology in advance for the delay we had, but we appeal and
thank you for your understanding since our editorial project is an
independent Open Access project conducted with a collective and
international effort of volunteers, which is not free from all the
viscicitudes faced by its participants. And in this case the edition has
been conducted completely by *Zapopan Martín Muela-Meza*. However, the
wait has been worthwhile, and we thank you for that earnestly, here you
have the third double issue. And our journal thanks to you keeps alive
and kicking, and arrives reinvigorating to its third volume launching
its double number (Vol 2 No. 2 & Vol. 3 No.1). For the next numbers keep
in mind these important dates: December 30, 2010 deadline to receive
contributions for the no. 2 of vol 3 (July-December 2010 issue) to be
published on January 30, 2011; May 30, 2011 deadline no.1 of vol 4
(Jan-Jun 2011); October 30, 2011 deadline for no.2 of vol.4 (Jul-Dec 2011).
*What are the contents of this issue of /LIS Critique?/*//In this number
you will find 6 contributions (3 articles and 3 essays) of 7 authors (6
Mexican and 1 Argentinian) who were kind enough to collaborate with this
number. To learn more about the credentials of these authors, at the end
of each contribution is appended their biographical profiles.
* *
*Zapopan Martín Muela-Meza (MEXICO) b*egins the critical debates of the
*/Articles /*section with his contribution: “The /social class struggles
concept /with an interdisciplinary approach/: /a paramount concept for
research in library and information science (LIS).” In this paper he
addresses that this concept emerged as part of the theoretical framework
of 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. /The relevance of his contribution, besides the fact of bringing
forward the concept of /social class /to the international debate in the
sciences of information recorded in documents, like library and
information science (LIS), is the fact of being configured as /stuggles
/in the Marxist sense, /social class struggles (/Marx and Engels, [1848]
1976a). However, in addition to this philosophical concept that is
politically and ideologically very controversial and broadly denied in
LIS research, other social sciences and the humanities, the
author has complemented it with the concept of /dominance hierarchy
/from the natural sciences (Hauser, 2006; Sagan and Druyan, 1992). This
concept configured and complemented with such approaches helped the
author in his doctoral thesis to understand better the underlying
controversial issues behind social classes and human conflicts. It also
helped him 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).
Another relevant aspect of this contribution is that the author not only
explains the arguments that are in favour to the data and results that
emerged in such doctoral research, but also he includes those
contrasting arguments to confront his analysis. Hence, he addresses a
sound critique against the partisans of the capitalist or bourgeois
class who through their rhetorical ploys such as “social capital” and
“community cohesion” of the postmodernist pseudoscience the pretend
fallaciously to deceit LIS theorists and practitioners. He also
criticizes rigorously the pseudoscience of postmodernism and its
ideologues and followers because they pretend to undermine the rational
logic fundamental to LIS and the rest of sciences. And he suggests 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.
*Federico Zeballos (ARGENTINA),*with his contribution: “The banning of
reading in Cordoba (Argentina): Elements for its study,” conducted a
thorough and well grounded critique to the banning of reading in
libraries of Cordoba, Argentina, by analysing documents since the
Spaniard colonization up to the recent past related to the military
dictatorships of extreme right in such country. He presents some cases
of censorship in different types of libraries: university, public,
school, popular and particular, where he highlights two of the first
public bonfires of “forbidden books” carried out in Cordoba, pyromaniac
practice to be later reproduced in numerous cities of Argentina and
America (the whole American continent not U.S.A.). The paper is
supported with accounts from directors and top managers who worked in
libraries in those days; photographs of book bonfires and records of
banned books; institutional documents such as royen and school
resolutions, and statutory notes.
As part of the analysis that he conducts of the happenings in Cordoba,
he makes a strong critique against such fascist oppression against
Argentinian citizens, in this case through their memory recorded in
documents:
“A common characteristic to all totalitarian regimes of the world,
through all times, and from the most diverse ideological inclinations,
has been (and it is) the systematic destruction of the heritage of
culture and identity that they consider their enemy (either “external”
or “internal”), as a basic strategy of domination against the opponent.
Thus, the bibliographic pyres aroused as a strong intimidatory message
sent to all the community. Within this they included the public exposure
of the kidnapped books, the /exordium/ of some
authorities, the shooting of photographs before and during the burnings,
and the later propaganda of the happening in various communication media.”
*Felipe Meneses-Tello (MEXICO), *who since this number has become a new
member of the *Editorial Board *of our journal, closes the */Articles
/*section, and he continues with the critical debates with his
contribution: “Universities, libraries, presses, and jails: spaces of
education, reading, and theoretical work of the revolutionary
proletarian intellectual.” In this he makes a critical examination of
how universities, libraries, presses, and jails through their documents
(books, periodicals, pamphlets, etc.) have served the revolutionaries of
all times, but in particular to those of the proletariat, of whom he
makes a sound recount of the Bolshevik Revolution. However, from a vast
array of institutions, he highlights that libraries have had more
preeminence in such self-taught instruction and theoretical possession
of the proletarian /intelligentsia:/
/ /
Without fear to be mistaken, the most representative and praised
institution between the revolutionary thinkers of the working class has
been the library –underground and legal--, since it has been the space
where they have spent considerable time of their lives. The various
biographic works about the plethora that has lead the labour movement in
the world support this statement. Hence, the intense work in a huge
diversity of libraries is an essential phenomenon to study and analyse
the central leaders of the revolutionary intellectuality.
*Jose Angel Gonzalez-Castillo and Carlos Alberto Martinez-Hernandez
(MEXICO),*open the section of */Essays/* with their contribution:
“Conformist trends in the laboring discourse and reality of librarians
in Mexico.” These authors have conducted a thorough critique against
some of the most notorious and pernicious elements of the invasion of
the capitalist and bourgeois ideas and practices in the theory and
practice of librarianship in Mexico. Their critique comprises the
current Mexican federal government of Felipe Calderon; the General
Directorate of Libraries (DGB) of the National Network of Libraries
(RNB) of the National Council for Culture and Arts (CONACULTA) from that
government; LIS education at the Department of Library and Information
Science of the School of Philosophy and Letters of the Mexico National
Autonomous University (UNAM), and the National School of Library and
Information Science and Archives (ENBA) of the Secretary of Public
Education (SEP) of the Mexican federal government. They mainly focused
their critique on two commentators (Hernández Pacheco, 2007; Arriola
Navarrete, 2006) whom through their library practice openly hold the
political ideologies of the capitalist and bourgeois right within
librarianship. They argue that such capitalist and bourgeois discourse
fosters a conformist attitude amongst LIS theorists and practitioners,
that charichaturises LIS theory, and that even worst, that affects the
labour rights of the personnel of the Mexican public libraries.
*Horacio Cárdenas Zardoni (MEXICO)*continues with the critical debates
with his essay: “What if librarians became professors? The labour
problems of librarians that work in state public libraries.”In this
essay he makes a comprehensive and critical literature review related to
job descriptions of library personnel from 20 Mexican public
universities, and he makes a sound critique to the fact that librarians
are not considered with faculty (professorship) rank, but only as a mere
managerial worker, without the recognition or advantages of the former
and without the possibilities for the betterment of the latter.
* *
*
*
*Gonzalo Clemente Lara Pacheco (MEXICO), *closes the section of
*/Essays/* with his contribution: “Books of the Mexico National
Autonomous University (UNAM) through Google: two years later.” The
author continues a debate he started himself in our journal two years
ago (Lara Pacheco, 2008). He criticizes and questions the corporate
discourse of Google with UNAM –as well as with all other libraries in
the world that already have agreements with them--, that after two years
of established such agreement the UNAM community has not received any
benefits. In addition, he criticises that the digitization processes
conducted by UNAM have been more efficient than those of Google, thus he
also criticises and questions the technological capacities of Google as
deficient, at least as compared with those of UNAM.
Hence, without further preface, we leave you at your hands with this
sound collective and international effort for you to submit it to your
rigorous critique and analysis. Get involved reading the debates offered
in these three numbers since 2008, and even more, get involved in our
editorial project by submitting your critical contributions.
Thank you for keeping our journal alive with your critical reading and
even better with your critical contributions too!
*References*
Arriola Navarrete, O. (2006) /Evolución de bibliotecas: un modelo desde
la óptica de los sistemas de gestión de calidad. Méxi/co. México.
Colegio Nacional de Bibliotecarios.
* *
Fleissner, P. & Hofkirchner, W. (1998). “The making of the information
society: driving forces, ‘Leitbilder’ and the imperative for survival.
/BioSystems. (46), pp. 201-207.///
* *
Hauser, M. D. (2006). /Moral Minds: How Nature Designed our Universal
Sense of Right And Wrong. /New York: Ecco; Harper Collins.
Hernández Pacheco, F. (2007) Nuevos paradigmas para la formación de los
recursos humanos en bibliotecas y centros de documentación.
/Documentación de las Ciencias de la Información./ Vol. 30, 65-99
Lara Pacheco, G.C. (2008).//Libros de la UNAM a través de Google.
/Crítica Bibliotecológica: Revista de las Ciencias de la Información
Documental,/ vol. 1, no. 1, jun.-dic., pp. 122-126. Disponible en línea:
http://eprints.rclis.org/15015/2/c.b.vol.1.no.1.lara-pacheco.pdf.
[Consultado 30 agosto 2010].**
Marx, K. & Engels, F. (1976a). /Karl Marx and Frederick Engels Collected
Works. Vol. 5./ London: Lawrence & Wishart; Moscow: Progress
Publishers; Institute of Marxism-Leninism Moscow. (Marx and Engels:
1845-47).
Sagan, C. & A. Druyan. (1992). /Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search
For Who We Are./ London: BCA. *C**B.*
--
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
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