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Interesting piece by librarian Barbara Fister in this week’s Library Journal, which caught my eye particularly because she made use of the “liberation” trope so popular in the 1960s and 1970s thanks to Father Gustavo Gutiérrez’s A Theology of Liberation.

One of the findings from the research I presented last week in Champaign at the iSchools conference was that Gutiérrez’s theory of liberation was much more effective in adding to academic discourse in a variety of fields beyond theology than it was in changing the Magisterium of the Catholic Church itself (which was Gutiérrez’s real goal— he was a practicing priest in Peru, not an academic seeking tenure, though he’s now teaching at Notre Dame.)

This speaks, I think to Fister’s colleague’s interest in theory and practice, though I too am having difficulty locating the articles she mentions as being behind various library firewalls, lol!

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