Where Social Justice Meets Librarianship Truth Commissions as Information Spaces for Work and Activism in International Librarianship

The fight for social justice is a task related to most disciplines of knowledge. The library and information (LIS) arena is not and should not be foreign to this quest. This brief article attempts to bring attention to the importance of establishing a relationship between an area of LIS such as international librarianship (IL) and the current concerns in the information world about social justice through the provision and dissemination of adequate information for the citizen. International librarianship is a discipline that involves, among other goals, the quest to examine and analyze the values and orientations of international information (Lor 2005) (Lor and Britz, 2005). Modern approaches to IL pay attention to the role of information flow and access in the international arena and the challenges that they are facing (Kesselman and Weintraub 2004) (Lor and Britz 2005). Those challenges require responses that relate to ethical pillars such as human rights, social justice, and the examination of the common good (Lor and Britz 2005, p. 65). Some of those values are the matter of this article