{"product_id":"9781936117895","title":"The Dialectic of Academic Librarianship : A Critical Approach","description":"\u003cp\u003eBales presents students, academics, researchers, and library professionals working in academic contexts with a critical examination of the role of academic librarians as information professionals in late-capitalist society. The author has organized the main body of his text in seven chapters devoted to dialectics and the modern capitalist academic library (MCAL), understanding the MCAL non-dialectically, dialectical material monism as an alternative way to understand the MCAL, and a wide variety of other related subjects. Stephen Bales is a faculty member of Texas A\u0026amp;M University Libraries. Annotation 2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Litwin Books, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49179901034723,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9781936117895-1.jpg?v=1788419285","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9781936117895","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}