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

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Buschman, John (Author), Leckie, Gloria J. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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?