Ebook: Educating Librarians in the Contemporary University : An Essay on ISchools and Emancipatory Resilience in Library and Information Science
Author: Joacim Hansson
- Tags: Information science-Social aspects., Library education-Social aspects., Library science-Social aspects., Information science-Social aspects-Europe., Information science-Study and teaching (Higher)-Social aspects., Library science-Social aspects-Europe., Library education-Social aspects-Europe., Information science-Study and teaching (Higher)-Social aspects-Europe., EDU000000, LAN025000
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: Litwin Books
- City: Sacramento, CA, United States
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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This book analyzes the development of the contemporary university in light of present critical social theory, focusing on such aspects as academic acceleration, organizational accretion and the rise of an "entrepreneurial spirit," all of which have both epistemological and organizational consequences. Library and Information Science has proven well-suited to meet this development. One way has been through the rapid international growth of the iSchool movement, now counting close to a hundred member schools all across the world. iSchools not only meet the requirements of contemporary university development, but also contribute to a recontextualization of librarianship and library education. As the iSchool movement relates to a view of information as a commodity and the "iField" to increased economic growth, it recontextualizes the library sector, traditionally connected to democratic development based on the ideas of the Enlightenment.
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