Information technology in librarianship [electronic resource] : new critical approaches
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
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Westport, Conn :
Libraries Unlimited ,
c2009
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : information technologies and libraries : why do we need new critical approaches?
- 2. Critical theory of technology : an overview
- 3. Surveillance and technology : contexts and distinctions
- 4. Cycles of net struggle, lines of net flight
- 5. A quick digital fix? : changing schools, changing literacies, persistent inequalities : a critical, contextual analysis
- 6. Theorizing the impact of ITon library-state relations
- 7. The prospects for an information science : the current absence of a critical perspective
- 8. Librarianship and the labor process : aspects of the rationalization, restructuring, and intensification of intellectual work
- 9. "Their little bit of ground slowly squashed into nothing" : technology, gender, and the vanishing librarian
- 10. Children and information technology
- 11. Open source software and libraries
- 12. Technologies of social regulation : an examination of library OPACs and Web portals
- 14. Libraries, archives, and digital preservation : a critical overview
- 15. Conclusion : just how critical should librarianship be of technology?