South Africa�s LIS Transformation Charter: policies, politics and professionals

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dc.contributor.authorHart, Genevieve
dc.contributor.authorNassimbeni, Mary
dc.date.accessioned14/12/2016 11:26
dc.date.available14/12/2016 11:26
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThe rhetoric of public librarianship includes many ringing claims for the role of libraries in democracy; and, on the 20-year anniversary of the advent of democracy in South Africa in 1994, it is an opportune moment to examine the rather confusing fortunes of libraries in our young democracy. In recent years, some 20 libraries have been destroyed in social protest; yet the LIS profession would argue that libraries are agents of development and social transformation. The paper reports on the work of the authors on the LIS Transformation Charter which, after a start-stop-start process of two phases over six years, has now been handed to government. The paper analyses the political and professional forces that influenced the Charter writing process; but we argue that the final Transformation Charter offers a vision of a transformed and integrated library system that has meaning to all sectors of South African society.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHart, G. and Nassimbeni, M. (2014). South Africa�s LIS Transformation Charter: policies, politics and professionals. Paper presented at: IFLA WLIC 2014 - Lyon - Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge in Session 200 - Library Theory and Research. In: IFLA WLIC 2014, 16-22 August 2014, Lyon, France.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/2472
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.ifla.org/834/
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherIFLAen_US
dc.rightsCopyright � 2014 by Genevieve Hart, Mary Nassimbeni. This work is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectDemocracyen_US
dc.subjectLIS Transformation Charteren_US
dc.subjectProfessional practiceen_US
dc.subjectTransformationen_US
dc.subjectLibrary and information services (LIS)en_US
dc.titleSouth Africa�s LIS Transformation Charter: policies, politics and professionalsen_US
dc.typeWorking Paperen_US

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