Information technology in librarianship new critical approaches /
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; an...
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Westport, Conn. :
Libraries Unlimited,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : information technologies and libraries : why do we need new critical approaches? / John E. Buschman and Gloria J. Leckie
- Critical theory of technology : an overview / Andrew Feenberg
- Surveillance and technology : contexts and distinctions / Gary T. Marx
- Cycles of net struggle, lines of net flight / Nick Dyer-Witheford
- A quick digital fix? : changing schools, changing literacies, persistent inequalities : a critical, contextual analysis / Ross Collin and Michael W. Apple
- Theorizing the impact of ITon library-state relations / Sandra Braman
- The prospects for an information science : the current absence of a critical perspective / John M. Budd
- Librarianship and the labor process : aspects of the rationalization, restructuring, and intensification of intellectual work / Michael F. Winter
- "Their little bit of ground slowly squashed into nothing" : technology, gender, and the vanishing librarian / Roma Harris
- Children and information technology / Andrew Large
- Open source software and libraries / Ajit Pyati
- Technologies of social regulation : an examination of library OPACs and Web portals / Gloria J. Leckie, Lisa Given, and Grant Campbell
- Libraries, archives, and digital preservation : a critical overview / Dorothy A. Warner
- Conclusion : just how critical should librarianship be of technology? / John E. Buschman.