TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pateman,Joe
AU  - Pateman, John 
TI  - Public Libraries and Marxism
SN  - 9780367761073
U1  - 025.1974 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Public librariesSoviet Union 	
KW  - Administration
KW  - Korea (North) 	
KW  - Libraries and communism
KW  - Libraries and society
KW  - Marxian school of sociology
N2  - Public Libraries and Marxism provides a Marxist analytical framework for understanding public libraries and presents a set of proposals for transforming the capitalist libraries of today. 
Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of this Marxist framework, the authors also provide a critical examination of the history, theory and practice of libraries in the Soviet Union and North Korea. Considering what a Marxist library service would look like in the Western capitalist countries of today, Pateman and Pateman synthesise the insights provided throughout the book into a set of Marxist proposals designed to promote the transformation of contemporary Western public librarianship. These proposals suggest how Western public libraries can change their organisation and practices – their strategies, structures, systems and culture – in order to best serve those with the most needs, particularly as society evolves in response to new challenge
ER  -