Information Technology in Librarianship (eBook, PDF)

New Critical Approaches
Redaktion: Leckie, Gloria J.; Buschman, John E.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In the last 15 years, the ground - both in terms of technological advance and in the sophistication of analyses of technology - has shifted. At the same time, librarianship as a field has adopted a more skeptical perspective; libraries are feeling market pressure to adopt and use new innovations; and their librarians boast a greater awareness of the socio-cultural, economic, and ethical considerations of information and communications technologies. Within such a context, a fresh and critical analysis of the foundations and applications of technology in librarianship is long overdue.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781591587750
• Artikelnr.: 38325739

Autorenporträt

Gloria J. Leckie is LIS program coordinator, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. She attained her MLIS and her PhD from the University of Western Ontario. Her research interests include information seeking behavior, the work of scholars and professionals, academic librarianship, information technologies, information literacy and libraries as public space. Gloria is currently on the Board of the Canadian Association for Information Science as well as on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Academic Librarianship and the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science John E. Buschman is associate university librarian, Collections, Preservation & Scholarly Communication, Lauinger Library, Georgetown University, Washington, DC

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Information Technologies and Libraries--Why Do We Need New
Critical Approaches
Part One: Foundations
Chapter 1: Critical Theory of Technology: An Overview
Chapter 2: Surveillance and Technology: Contexts and Distinctions
Chapter 3: Cycles of Net Struggle, Lines of Net Flight
Chapter 4: A Quick Digital Fix? Changing Schools, Changing Literacies,
Persistent Inequalities: A Critical, Contextual Analysis
Chapter 5: Theorizing the Impact of IT on Library-State Relations
Part Two: Applications
Chapter 6: The Prospects for an Information Science: The Current Absence of
a Critical Perspecitive
Chapter 7: Librarianship and the Labor Process: Aspects of the
Rationalization, Restructuring, and Intensification of Intellectual Work
Chapter 8: "Their Little Bit of Ground Slowly Squashed into Nothing":
Technology, Gender and the Vanishing Librarian
Chapter 9: Children and Information Technology
Chapter 10: Open Source Software & Libraries
Chapter 11: Technologies of Social Regulation: An Examination of Library
OPACs and Web Portals
Chapter 12: Libraries, Archives and Digital Preservation: A Critical
Overview
Conclusion: Just How Critical Should Librarianship Be of Technology?
Index
About the Editors and Contributors