Introduction : dialectics and the modern capitalist academic library -- Understanding the MCAL non-dialectically -- Dialectical material monism as alternative way to understand the MCAL -- The MCAL and ideology -- The counter-hegemonic academic librarian -- Conclusions (and beginnings).
Summary:
"Examines the academic library's position as a culturally and historically situated producer and curator of knowledge and its instrumental role in driving social reproduction and the status quo"-- Provided by publisher.
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