Information Technology in Librarianship

Introduction: Information Technologies and Libraries--Why Do We Need New Critical Approaches
Part One: Foundations
Chapter 1: Critical Theory of Technology: An Overview
Chapter 2: Surveillance and Technology: Contexts and Distinctions
Chapter 3: Cycles of Net Struggle, Lines of Net Flight
Chapter 4: A Quick Digital Fix? Changing Schools, Changing Literacies, Persistent Inequalities: A Critical, Contextual Analysis
Chapter 5: Theorizing the Impact of IT on Library-State Relations
Part Two: Applications
Chapter 6: The Prospects for an Information Science: The Current Absence of a Critical Perspecitive
Chapter 7: Librarianship and the Labor Process: Aspects of the Rationalization, Restructuring, and Intensification of Intellectual Work
Chapter 8: "Their Little Bit of Ground Slowly Squashed into Nothing": Technology, Gender and the Vanishing Librarian
Chapter 9: Children and Information Technology
Chapter 10: Open Source Software & Libraries
Chapter 11: Technologies of Social Regulation: An Examination of Library OPACs and Web Portals
Chapter 12: Libraries, Archives and Digital Preservation: A Critical Overview
Conclusion: Just How Critical Should Librarianship Be of Technology?
Index
About the Editors and Contributors