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What is Social Justice Laws of Librarianship

Chapter 16
Handbook of Research on the Role of Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Achieving Civic Engagement and Social Justice in Smart Cities
The social justice laws of librarianship discussed in this chapter extend Ranganathan’s conceptualization of the five laws of library science to identify new directions of contemporary value in making a potential impact at the social, cultural, political, and economic levels in external community settings. Each social justice law is structured in terms of the “what to do” (i.e., why) and the “how to do” suggestions for readers to actualize them in their own work environments. In this manner, readers can draw on these pieces together in helping them operationalize and implement the laws in their situational contexts while responding to the diverse circumstances and conditions they experience.
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Extending Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan in the 21st Century: Social Justice Laws of Librarianship
Bharat Mehra (University of Alabama, USA)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8363-0.ch016
Abstract
This chapter traces the actualities and possibilities of representing social justice and social equity concerns in LIS via extending Ranganathan's five laws of librarianship within today's contemporary neoliberal and geopolitical realities. Blinders in librarianship are identified in its resistance to intentional, systematic, action-oriented, community-engaged, and impact-driven strategies of social justice and real change owing to its White-IST (white + elitist) roots. These are speculated in relation to the profession's undervaluing of Ranganathan's contributions because of his South Asian (i.e., East Indian) origins as a result of the pedestalizing of its Anglo/Eurocentric components within the legacies of a colonized and imperialistic world order. A manifesto of social justice laws of librarianship is proposed to address past and recent lapses in LIS.
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