Library Management: Volume 39 Issue 5

Editorial

Steve O’Connor

Democracy and libraries: symbol or symbiosis?

Alex Byrne

Libraries are frequently claimed to be essential to the functioning of a democratic society and to be symbols of intellectual freedom. The purpose of this paper is to explore the…

Information as currency, democracy, and public libraries

Christine Stilwell

The purpose of this paper is to endorse the notion that information is the currency of democracy and explore the question of the public library’s role in promoting democracy…

Democracy, information, and libraries in a time of post-truth discourse

Peter Johan Lor

To serve their clients in a time of post-truth discourse and fake news, librarians need to understand the post-truth phenomenon. The purpose of this paper is to examine it, what…

The value of information in South Africa’s new democracy

Genevieve Hart, Mary Nassimbeni

The purpose of this paper is to trace and analyse the relationship between information and democracy in the old and in the new South Africa. The authors interrogate the…

Information is the currency of democracy: Japanese perspective

Yasuyo Inoue

The purpose of this paper is to proffer the view that the activities of libraries in Japan are central to the democratic process.