Abstract

The author analyzes in this article (“Universities, libraries, presses, and jails: spaces of education, reading, and theoretical work of the revolutionary proletarian intellectual”) the main institutional (universities, libraries, presses, and jail) resources that revolutionary proletarian intellectuals have used throughout their lives to study, research, and produce a large number of bibliographic tools. In this way, instruction and theoretical possession by the proletarian intelligentsia can be thought about from a documentary context, characterized by specific situations: secrecy, persecution, imprisonment, and exile, among other possibilities.

Key Words

Intellectual revolutionaries, Proletariat, Universities, Libraries, Presses, Jails.

Abstract

This paper criticizes a rooted tendency and attitude of conformism that has been exposed both in library practice and debate. It also criticizes the enthusiast acceptance of the dominant establishment and the active defense of capitalistic impositions that are systematically published in LIS documents, and implemented in library routinary strategies through all the levels of LIS practice. It also criticizes various LIS institutions ranging from the General Direction of Libraries of the Mexican National Network of Public Libraries, until the LIS schools that foster such conformist speech in LIS that tramples on labour rights, that triviliazes LIS curricula and that abandons this discipline in a theoretical and critical void.

Keywords

Mexico; Library and Information Science (LIS); conformist librarianship; pro-capitalistic driven librarianship; critique to capitalism; critique to conformist librarianship.

Abstract

The librarian is an important position for the functioning of libraries belonging to institutions of higher education. Library personnel is in charge of planning, organizing,  management, operation and giving information services  in the universities, it is a fundamental part of the teaching/learning process, in grade and postgraduate education, of the knowledge generation activities, and culture diffusion. The university librarian plays an instrumental part in the university curriculum, and a relevant role in the rhetoric of society of information/society of knowledge, offering from beginners instruction to specialized searches that facilitate the scientific work, technological development and contextualization of these in the academic information universe. Despite of all this and of being in charge of guarding, capitalization and exploitation of  important economic investments on  the part of the Government of the Republic and the institutions of higher education in Mexico, the librarian is not considered an academician, merely an administrative worker, without the recognition and advantages of the first, and without the betterment possibilities of the second.

Key words

University libraries; university librarians; librarians; academic personnel; administrative personnel; salary tabulators; universities; institutions of higher education.