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  <title><![CDATA[Questioning Library Neutrality: Essays from Progressive Librarian]]></title>
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  <default_description>Questioning Library Neutrality: Essays from Progressive Librarian presents essays that relate to neutrality in librarianship in a philosophical or practical sense, and sometimes both. They are a selection of essays originally published in Progressive Librarian, the journal of the Progressive Librarians Guild, presented in the chronological order of their appearance there. These essays, some by academics and some by passionate practitioners, offer a set of critiques of the notion of neutrality as it governs professional activity, focusing on the importance of meaningful engagement in the social sphere.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good and scholarly.  Questions I like to read about but can't necessarily articulate the importance of when I am done.  Though I feel the importance in every ounce of my bod.  Various essays about people who question the idea the professional is neutral, claiming nothing is neutral.  Normal? is a ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36320787">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this in a clump with two other Library Juice Press books (Shiraz Durrani's 'Information and Liberation' and Ed D'Angelo's 'Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library'), and think this is the best. Peter McDonald's &quot;Corporate Inroads in Librarianship&quot; was particularly inspiring, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75399922">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Culling from the pages of <em>Progressive Librarian</em> journal, this collection of articles are united in their stance against library neutrality, a particular take on academic objectivity which holds that libraries should be agnostic towards the social value of library material in the selection process. L...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62336146">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned a lot from this book. See my full review of it over at my blog <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://gypsylibrarian.blogspot.com/2009/03/booknote-questioning-library-neutrality.html">here</a>. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Are librarians really neutral (services, programming, collection development) or is that just a myth?  Here's a book that argues excellently that it's the latter and that using neutrality as an argument for the services we provide really supports the status quo.  Libraries should be better than that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30658902">more...</a>]]></body>
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