Information Technology in Librarianship [electronic resource] : New Critical Approaches.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Englewood : ABC-CLIO, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781591587750
Uniform titles:
  • Ebook Library.
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Information Technology in Librarianship: New Critical ApproachesDDC classification:
  • 020.285 INF
LOC classification:
  • Z678.9 .I5334 2008
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Contents:
Contents; Introduction: Information Technologies and Libraries-Why Do We Need New Critical Approaches?; 1 Foundations; 1 Critical Theory of Technology: An Overview; 2 Surveillance and Technology: Contexts and Distinctions; 3 Cycles of Net Struggle, Lines of Net Flight; 4 A Quick Digital Fix? Changing Schools, Changing Literacies, Persistent Inequalities: A Critical, Contextual Analysis; 5 Theorizing the Impact of IT on Library-State Relations; 2 Applications; 6 The Prospects for an Information Science: The Current Absence of a Critical Perspective.
7 Librarianship and the Labor Process: Aspects of the Rationalization, Restructuring, and Intensification of Intellectual Work8 "Their Little Bit of Ground Slowly Squashed into Nothing": Technology, Gender, and the Vanishing Librarian; 9 Children and Information Technology; 10 Open Source Software and Libraries; 11 Technologies of Social Regulation: An Examination of Library OPACs and Web Portals; 12 Libraries, Archives, and Digital Preservation: A Critical Overview; Conclusion: Just How Critical Should Librarianship Be of Technology?; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S.
TU; W; About the Editors and Contributors.
Summary: 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.
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Contents; Introduction: Information Technologies and Libraries-Why Do We Need New Critical Approaches?; 1 Foundations; 1 Critical Theory of Technology: An Overview; 2 Surveillance and Technology: Contexts and Distinctions; 3 Cycles of Net Struggle, Lines of Net Flight; 4 A Quick Digital Fix? Changing Schools, Changing Literacies, Persistent Inequalities: A Critical, Contextual Analysis; 5 Theorizing the Impact of IT on Library-State Relations; 2 Applications; 6 The Prospects for an Information Science: The Current Absence of a Critical Perspective.

7 Librarianship and the Labor Process: Aspects of the Rationalization, Restructuring, and Intensification of Intellectual Work8 "Their Little Bit of Ground Slowly Squashed into Nothing": Technology, Gender, and the Vanishing Librarian; 9 Children and Information Technology; 10 Open Source Software and Libraries; 11 Technologies of Social Regulation: An Examination of Library OPACs and Web Portals; 12 Libraries, Archives, and Digital Preservation: A Critical Overview; Conclusion: Just How Critical Should Librarianship Be of Technology?; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S.

TU; W; About the Editors and Contributors.

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.

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