Information Technology in Librarianship

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Information Technology in Librarianship New Critical Approaches

Gloria J. Leckie, John E. Buschman

Book Code: LU8629

ISBN: 1-59158-629-1

ISBN-13: 978-1-59158-629-6

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304 pages

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Publication: 11/30/2008

List Price: $50.00 (UK Sterling Price: £27.95)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Paperback

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

Subjects:

Library & Information Science » Digital Technologies

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 John Buschman and Gloria J. Leckie
Part One: Foundations
Chapter 1: Critical Theory of Technology: An Overview Andrew Feenberg
Chapter 2: Surveillance and Technology: Contexts and Distinctions Gary T. Marx
Chapter 3: Cycles of Net Struggle, Lines of Net Flight Nick Dyer-Witheford
Chapter 4: A Quick Digital Fix? Changing Schools, Changing Literacies, Persistent Inequalities: A Critical, Contextual Analysis Ross Collin and Michael W. Apple
Chapter 5: Theorizing the Impact of IT on Library-State Relations Sandra Braman
Part Two: Applications
Chapter 6: The Prospects for an Information Science: The Current Absence of a Critical Perspecitive John M. Budd
Chapter 7: Librarianship and the Labor Process: Aspects of the Rationalization, Restructuring, and Intensification of Intellectual Work Michael F. Winter
Chapter 8: "Their Little Bit of Ground Slowly Squashed into Nothing": Technology, Gender and the Vanishing Librarian Roma Harris
Chapter 9: Children and Information Technology Andrew Large
Chapter 10: Open Source Software & Libraries Ajit Pyati
Chapter 11: Technologies of Social Regulation: An Examination of Library OPACs and Web Portals Gloria Leckie, Lisa Given, and Grant Campbell
Chapter 12: Libraries, Archives and Digital Preservation: A Critical Overview Dorothy Warner
Conclusion: Just How Critical Should Librarianship Be of Technology? John Buschman
Index
About the Editors and Contributors

LC Card Number: 2008030424

LCC Class: Z678

Dewey Class: 025

PDF Catalogs:
LU Academic Library Spring 2008.pdf


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