02864cam a22003257i 450000100090000000300060000900500170001500800410003201000170007302000240009002000150011402000240012903500240015304000450017704200140022204300210023605000240025708200160028110000300029724501020032726000310042930000430046050400670050352017830057065000360235365000280238965000370241765000380245465000460249218300611MWNLS20210628102240.0140415s2014    enka     b    001 0 eng d  a  2014455065  a9781869886202 (pbk)  a1869886208  z9781869886219 (ebk)  a(OCoLC)ocn891320242  aUK-RwCLSbengcCDXerdadOCLCOdUABdDLC  alccopycat  ae-uk---af-ke---00aZ665.2.G7bD87 201404a020.94122310aDurrani, Shiraz.eauthor.10aProgressive librarianship :bperspectives from Kenya and Britain, 1979-2010 /cby Shiraz Durrani.  aLondonbVita Books cc2014  ax, 435 pages :billustrations ;c24 cm  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 415-427) and index.  aPublic spending is under threat and public libraries are suffering. At a time when libraries can play a critical role in supporting people facing difficult economic and social situations, the dominant conservative model of librarianship has nothing meaningful to say about the role and relevance of libraries. It offers more of the same, but no qualitative change so necessary today. . It continues to maintain the myth that there is no alternative to its own policies and practices. There is thus an urgent need for alternative ideas and practices to address people's needs. The progressive librarianship movement - in USA, Europe and other places - is taking up this challenge. P It has also been active in in Kenya and Britain but its work is not widely known. The Kenyan movement differed from the others in that it grew within the underground political movement in the 1980s - the December Twelve Movement. It was its Library Cell that set out its ideas on what a relevant library service should be and put many of its ideas into practice. This experience later reached Britain. Using original documents, this book records this hidden history. In the process, it examines key concepts such as the role of libraries and the relevance of service. Linking library work with the wider social and political concerns, the book explores issues such as politics of information and the role of activism and "neutrality" in library work. Deriving ideas from practice, it offers an alternative approach to librarianship, to the training of librarians and to organisational change to make libraries more relevant to people's lives. The book will be of interest to library staff and professionals, students and teachers of librarianship as well as to political activists and historians. 0aLibrary sciencezGreat Britain. 0aLibrary sciencezKenya. 0aPublic librarieszGreat Britain. 0aLibrariesxSocial aspectszKenya. 0aLibrariesxSocial aspectszGreat Britain.