TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buschman,John
AU  - Leckie,Gloria J.
TI  - Information technology in librarianship: new critical approaches 
SN  - 9781591586296
AV  - Z678 .I546 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Westport, Conneticut
PB  - Libraries Unlimited
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Libraries
KW  - Automation
KW  - Library science
KW  - Technological innovations
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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. --
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