Abstract

PARADA, Alejandro E.. Bibliotecología y responsabilidad social. Inf. cult. soc. [online]. 1999, n.1, pp.65-75. ISSN 1851-1740.

This paper critically examines the relations between librarianship and social responsibility, it does so in a number of ways; first the dominance of information technology in library and information science; then examines the discussion between "pragmatism" versus social responsibility; finally the contribution reports the disciplinary growth of our profession as a social scientific discipline. In this way, the author argues for the integration of this different trends in librarianship, but without missing our social responsibility.

Keywords : Librarianship-Social Responsibility; Theory of Librarianship; Public Libraries.

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