Abstract

United Nation published Human Rights Declaration in 1948. The most important part of the Human Right Declaration is that, everyone has the right to search and receive information at any time. To this respect, libraries play a significant task in disseminating information (Knowledge) to each individual. An exploratory approach is applied to selected discourses from organizations such as IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions), ALA (American Library Association) and TLA (Turkish Librarians’ Association) to find out if there is a coherent relation among texts, by applying Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) technique. Results yield that there existed a positive relation among discourses.

Keywords: Intellectual freedom, Libraries, Human rights

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How to Cite

Darvish, H. (2010). Intellectual Freedom and Libraries: A Quantitative Discourse Analysis. Information World, 11(2), 444-449. https://doi.org/10.15612/BD.2010.245