Information technology in librarianship
Subtitle: new critical approaches
By: edited by Gloria J. Leckie and John E. Buschman.
Contributors: Leckie, Gloria J.; Buschman, John.
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9781591586296
Subjects: Libraries -- Information technology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : information technologies and libraries : why do we need new critical approaches? / John E. Buschman and Gloria J. Leckie; title: Critical theory of technology : an overview / Andrew Feenberg; title: Surveillance and technology : contexts and distinctions / Gary T. Marx; title: Cycles of net struggle, lines of net flight / Nick Dyer-Witheford; title: A quick digital fix? : changing schools, changing literacies, persistent inequalities : a critical, contextual analysis / Ross Collin and Michael W. Apple; title: Theorizing the impact of ITon library-state relations / Sandra Braman; title: The prospects for an information science : the current absence of a critical perspective / John M. Budd; title: Librarianship and the labor process : aspects of the rationalization, restructuring, and intensification of intellectual work / Michael F. Winter; title: "Their little bit of ground slowly squashed into nothing" : technology, gender, and the vanishing librarian / Roma Harris; title: Children and information technology / Andrew Large; title: Open source software and libraries / Ajit Pyati; title: Technologies of social regulation : an examination of library OPACs and Web portals / Gloria J. Leckie, Lisa Given, and Grant Campbell; title: Libraries, archives, and digital preservation : a critical overview / Dorothy A. Warner; title: Conclusion : just how critical should librarianship be of technology? / John E. Buschman.