Library collections in the perspective of US “critical librarianship”
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Library science, Critical Librarianship, IFLA, UNESCO, American Library AssociationAbstract
This article aims to offer an overview of collections from the perspective of Critical Librarianship or, for short, CritLib, whose principles have been applied in the United States to all types of libraries and all their functions. Last years in the US library sector attention has increasingly turned towards topics relating to “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion”, identified precisely through the acronym DEI or EDI, with a line of studies, research and a certain “activism”, to increasingly reflect, in terms of services and collections, not only the diversities of their communities, but even the social justice.
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