Masks falling or "Can library science be rediscovered?" Postcolonial Studies and Libraries, its Relationship to Knowledge, and Culture in Egypt and The Arab World: Exploratory study

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Dept. of Libraries and Information - Faculty of Arts, Helwan University

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This study aims to introduce colonial, post-colonial, and decolonial studies and all related terms such as Orientalism and the subaltern school, they are multiple names for a specific issue from which other related issues branch out that have been studied in the social sciences, humanities, history, politics, economics, art, Literature and linguistics. Although it focuses mostly on the colonial era, some of them turned to post-colonial studies after the publication of Edward Said’s work (Orientalism) in 1978, and although the broad intellectual, philosophical and cultural discussions that appear to be very rich in all fields, they are still very far in the field of libraries from the discussions that could lead to an intellectual transformation that defines the value of library science as one of the most important sciences. Social studies that can have an impact in this field, obviously its study in the field of library and information science (LIS) is still a feature that has not yet become clear despite the availability of Western studies - but in its entirety it is far from post-colonial studies - and it has almost not yet begun clearly, perhaps. Because library science in its entirety is a science that has developed specifically in the United States, this study attempts to shed light on these types of studies, (The researcher reviewed 30  studies in the field of libraries), analyzed and discussed them, and extracted the most important results and ways to apply them in the field of libraries and information in the Arab School of Libraries and Information, by defining them, presenting the term, the history of the emergence of this type of studies, its roots, and the answer. Asking why this type of study and introducing its application areas in the field of libraries and information Science. also How did library collections represent observatories and evidence of the colonial tide, and how can they be developed in future studies for graduate students on the topic?

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