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082			_a025.1974 _bPAT.P
100			_aPateman,Joe
245			_aPublic Libraries and Marxism / _cby Joe Pateman and John Pateman
260			_aLondon : _bRoutledge _c2021
520			_aPublic 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
650			_aPublic librariesSoviet Union _vAdministration _zKorea (North)
650			_aLibraries and communism ; _aLibraries and society ; _aMarxian school of sociology ;
700			_aPateman, John
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