Information Technology in Librarianship : New Critical Approaches

by Leckie, Gloria J.

• ISBN13: 9781591586296
• ISBN10: 1591586291
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781591587750
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-30
• Publisher: Libraries Unltd Inc
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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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Information Technologies and Libraries-Why Do We Need New Critical Approaches?	p. 1
Foundations
Critical Theory of Technology: An Overview	p. 31
Surveillance and Technology: Contexts and Distinctions	p. 47
Cycles of Net Struggle, Lines of Net Flight	p. 61
A Quick Digital Fix? Changing Schools, Changing Literacies, Persistent Inequalities: A Critical, Contextual Analysis	p. 83
Theorizing the Impact of IT on Library-State Relations	p. 105
Applications
The Prospects for an Information Science: The Current Absence of a Critical Perspective	p. 129
Librarianship and the Labor Process: Aspects of the Rationalization, Restructuring, and Intensification of Intellectual Work	p. 143
"Their Little Bit of Ground Slowly Squashed into Nothing": Technology, Gender, and the Vanishing Librarian	p. 165
Children and Information Technology	p. 181
Open Source Software and Libraries	p. 205
Technologies of Social Regulation: An Examination of Library OPACs and Web Portals	p. 221
Libraries, Archives, and Digital Preservation: A Critical Overview	p. 261
Conclusion: Just How Critical Should Librarianship Be of Technology?	p. 281
Index	p. 289
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 293
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