Summary Of Intellectual Freedom Is Not Social Justice By Kyle Shocky
Shockey, K. (2016). Intellectual Freedom Is Not Social Justice. Progressive Librarian, (44), 101-110.
Kyle Shockey is a Resource Description Specialist at the American University. His article discusses academic freedom and its relationship to the LIS Curriculum. He begins by discussing Professor Steven Salatia losing his tenured position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after the professor used Twitter to criticize the Israel Defense Force during the summer of 2014. Given that one of the ALA’s core values is academic freedom, Shockey argues that the ALA and ALA-accredited schools and institutions should’ve done more to defend Professor Salatia.
He gives examples of the tension between the ALA’s view of intellectual freedom and the social responsibility value it upholds, claiming that this conflict is not taught enough to LIS students. Intellectual freedom as a core ALA value began narrowly focused on book …show more content…
It does contain references, but it is primarily an opinion piece, based on the author’s forty year career in Library and Information Science research and teaching. Article 19 on Freedom of Expression of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights is at the beginning of the discussion of how intellectual freedom is related to and essential to a progressive (and democratic) society. “Intellectual freedom begets and supports democracy, and democracy in turn provides appropriate conditions for the further development intellectual freedom”, Paul Sturgis writes. This is a succinct summary of the symbiotic relationship between democracy and intellectual freedom that I found useful in framing the importance of this topic to the values of individual
Kyle Shockey is a Resource Description Specialist at the American University. His article discusses academic freedom and its relationship to the LIS Curriculum. He begins by discussing Professor Steven Salatia losing his tenured position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after the professor used Twitter to criticize the Israel Defense Force during the summer of 2014. Given that one of the ALA’s core values is academic freedom, Shockey argues that the ALA and ALA-accredited schools and institutions should’ve done more to defend Professor Salatia.
He gives examples of the tension between the ALA’s view of intellectual freedom and the social responsibility value it upholds, claiming that this conflict is not taught enough to LIS students. Intellectual freedom as a core ALA value began narrowly focused on book …show more content…
It does contain references, but it is primarily an opinion piece, based on the author’s forty year career in Library and Information Science research and teaching. Article 19 on Freedom of Expression of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights is at the beginning of the discussion of how intellectual freedom is related to and essential to a progressive (and democratic) society. “Intellectual freedom begets and supports democracy, and democracy in turn provides appropriate conditions for the further development intellectual freedom”, Paul Sturgis writes. This is a succinct summary of the symbiotic relationship between democracy and intellectual freedom that I found useful in framing the importance of this topic to the values of individual