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Information Technology in Librarianship New Critical Approaches
Gloria J. Leckie, ed., John E. Buschman, Editors
ISBN: 1-59158-629-1
ISBN-13: 978-1-59158-629-6
304 pages
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Publication: 11/30/2008
List Price: $50.00 (UK Sterling Price: £34.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Paperback
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • "…The new edition, subtitled New Critical Approaches, examines six types of critiques, among them feminist technology analysis and technological utopia, in a series of chapters by prominent scholars. Required reading for anyone interested in critical theory relating to technology."
    —American Libraries     3/1/2009
Description: 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.
Table of Contents:
  • 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
About the Author: Gloria J. Leckie is LIS Program Coordinator, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. She attained her MLIS and her Ph.D. 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, D.C.
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