Libraries, Human Rights, and Social Justice: Enabling Access and
Promoting Inclusion examines the interrelationships between digital
literacy, digital inclusion, and public policy, emphasizing the
impacts of these policy decisions on the ability of individuals and
communities to successfully participate in the information society.
It is the first large-scale consideration of digital literacy and
digital inclusion as policy problems and provides policy
recommendations to promote digital literacy and digital inclusion.
This book is intended to help librarians better understand and
articulate their roles in promoting human rights and social
justice, as well as to educate policymakers, government officials,
professionals in other fields, and researchers in other disciplines
about the contributions of libraries to human rights and social
justice. It explores the intersections of information, human
rights, and social justice from a range of perspectives and
addresses the differing roles of library institutions (public,
school, academic, and special libraries), library professionals,
professional organizations, governments, and library patrons.
Discussion focuses on the practical side of human rights and avoids
most of the philosophical discussions of the term. Similarly, this
book emphasizes the practical nature of social justice and the
social and societal structures that foster equality. Related issues
of digital literacy and digital inclusion are considered as
essential to providing information in human rights and social
justice contexts. Digital literacy, the ability to use the Internet
to meet information, combines with access to the Internet in order
to successfully apply the skills of digital literacy is discussed
under the topic of digital inclusion. These topics are discussed
through legal, policy, social, cultural, and economic lenses.
Issues are examined both in terms of efforts to support equity in
communities as a whole and the efforts intended to promote equity
in specific disadvantaged or marginalized populations, such as the
homeless, immigrants, people with disabilities, and the
socioeconomically disadvantaged. Many examples of the issues
discussed are drawn from the original research that the authors
have conducted. The ideas and suggestions in this book should help
members of the library community understand where their roles
related to human rights and social justice originate, how they fit
within the broader policy context, how to improve their related
services and practices, and how to advocate for better support of
these roles. The authors of this book have been involved in this
research for many years and this breadth allows the book to offer
comprehensive policy recommendations, solutions, and best practices
for an area that is currently extremely fragmented. The writing is
at a level to make it useful to undergraduate and postgraduate
students, researchers, and policy makers.
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