Land in libraries : toward a materialist conception of education / edited by Lydia Zvyagintseva and Mary Greenshields.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zvyagintseva, Lydia, editor.

Greenshields, Mary, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land tenure.

Social justice and education.

Libraries--History.

Libraries.

Library science--Social aspects.

Library science.

Library science--Political aspects.

Social justice.

Politics, Practical.

Libraries--history.

Library Science.

Social Justice.

Politics.

library science.

politics.

Medical Subjects:

Libraries--history.

Library Science.

Social Justice.

Politics.

Physical Description:

193 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Sacramento, CA : Library Juice Press, 2023.

Summary:

"The question of land is largely absent in libraries. Deeply committed to the neoliberal project as a guiding ideology of the profession, libraries exist at once as ahistorical, atheoretical, and landless institutions in their understanding of themselves, their work, and their impact on people. This edited volume seeks to contribute to the growing body of work on libraries and the anthropocene, decolonization, and climate change through writing in theory and practice. We are interested in both non-metaphorical (actual, material) as well as conceptual perspectives on land. We are interested in centering land as a foundational category underpinning social relations, as a necessity for the function and reproduction of capitalism, and as a place where we work and learn together. Fundamentally, we live on the land and how we live in relation to the land matters to how we understand ourselves as individuals and a society."-- Back cover.

Contents:

Andrew Weymouth - Civilizing separating and organizing : the geographic influence on nineteenth century western libraries / Gregory Whistance-Smith - Towards a spirit of place in library architecture / Laura Marie Judge and Jedidiah Crook - Making place, placing makers : connecting history, memory, and land by indigenizing New Hampshire Public Library local history collections / Courtney S. Nomiyama and Truc Ho - Rooting research : a critical examination in universities' research commons / Ashley Edwards, Dr. Julia Lane, Dr. Alix Shield, and Dal Sohal - Bringing the land into the library : Land acknowledgments in an academic library / Danielle Marie Bitz - Downstream / Ariel Hahn - Refusing growth : cloud technology, climate change, and the future of libraries and archives.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

1634001397

9781634001397

OCLC:

1375640276

Publisher Number:

99995926453