[huridocs-tech] Librarians and Human Rights: A Call for Participation

in particular interesting for US based librarians

Librarians and Human Rights: A Call for Participation
July 20, 2005

For our forthcoming monograph, Universal Responsibility, Human Rights and
Librarianship (Academic Press, 2006), we would like to include examples of
librarians taking action. Our book will present a historical and cultural
analysis of the role of librarians vis-a-vis human rights as defined by
the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The authors will highlight
the stated goals of the profession and the work of librarians and
professional associations towards achieving a more equitable society in
the United States. The article, “Human Rights and Librarians”; Reference
and User Services Quarterly 45, Fall 2005: 21-24, will provide an
overview.

While we will be drawing from the written record we know that many of our
colleagues are involved on a daily basis in the ongoing fight for peace,
freedom, environmental and social justice. We hope that you will respond
to this call so that we may include a chapter on the scope of librarians’
commitment. Our goal is a volume that will provide hope and inspiration by
example.

Kathleen de la Peña McCook, SRRT & PLG member, Florida
kmccook@tampabay.rr.com
http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/mccook/seminar.htm

Katharine J. Phenix, SRRT & PLG member, Colorado
e-mail: kphenix@rangeviewld.org



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