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Kajian Dalam Bidang Ilmu Perpustakaan dan Informasi: Filosofi, Teori, dan Praktik

the relevance of LIS program curriculum in the context of librarian
profession and library role today. Bales & Engle (2012) are among those
who sponsor librarians’ involvement in counter-hegemony acts in the effort
to deal with hegemonic power, which often shuts librarians’ awareness
to take actions outside the main stream, the frequently representative of
dominant ideologies. They further call for academic librarians’ political
action through voluntary transformation in addressing inequality in the
community. Librarians must be able to act as academic intellectuals who
endlessly interact with the community, struggle to make changes in thoughts,
get involved in knowledge evolution, raise issues in the public domain, and
defend social welfare standard, freedom, and justice. Academic librarians
as intellectual laborers and gatekeepers of knowledge resources should be
sensitive to the interests of marginalized and disempowered groups.
Meanwhile, Radford and Radford (2005) provide a new reference for
understanding and a new way to analyze and conceptualize the discipline
Library and Information Science (LIS). By using the Structuralist and
Post-Structuralist traditions, they discuss its relevance with LIS. Through
Structuralist and Post-Structuralist principles, how people understand the
world and how they fail to find out what the world is can be discovered.
Because Structuralism and Post-Structuralism deny absolute scientific
truth and finality, there is a high possibility that changes will arise in LIS.
It is necessary to make a discursive formation to find new truths, enabling
demolition of the old ones for the sake of finding alternatives for advances
relevant to current development. A few years previously, Radford (1998)
builds the idea of the necessity of using Foucauldian thoughts in his essay
(1967/1977) entitled “La Bibliotheque Fantastique” to promote the spirit
of liberation that is not restricted by dominant frame of positivist thinking.
This liberation is made possible by the critique that will “separate out, from
the contingency that has made us what we are, the possibility of no longer
being, doing, or thinking what we are, do, or think.” The Bibliotheque
Fantastique is a monumental step in realizing this spirit of liberation, that
is, a way to separate out the positivist epistemology that has defined the
nature of the library experience for so long and offer the possibility of no
longer “being, doing, or thinking what we are, do, or think.”
Using Michael Faucault’s concept of Heterotopia, Radford, Radford
& Lingel (2015) state that library is an instance of Heterotopia which is
not restricted to library only on the basis that library is a physical space.
Drawing on The Heterotopia concept, library will be able to rethink of
traditional ways by providing a means of articulating and understanding
millennials’ new experiences in using library. This indicates that library
is far more than just a lifeless book repository or a static monument for

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