1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996215314103316

Autore

Chen Chuanfu

Titolo

Library and Information Sciences [[electronic resource] ] : Trends and Research / / edited by Chuanfu Chen, Ronald Larsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, : Springer Nature, 2014

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-642-54812-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s)

Disciplina

020

Soggetti

Business

Management science

Library science

Literacy

Business and Management, general

Library Science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Part I Information Profession and Information Literacy -- Chapter 1 Career and Professional Opportunities and Challenges for Librarians and Other Information Professionals Specializing in Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning -- Chapter 2 So What’s the Big Deal With Information Literacy in the United States? -- Chapter 3 A Group Discussion on Information Literacy -- Part II Trends of Library and Information Sciences Education -- Chapter 4 iSchools & the iSchool at Syracuse University -- Part III Information Seeking and Retrieval -- Chapter 5 Visual Data Mining in a Q&A based Social Media Website -- Chapter 6 Information Seeking Behaviour and Usage on a Multi-media Platform: Case Study Europeana -- Chapter 7 Exploratory Search: a Critical Analysis of the Theoretical Foundations, Systems Features, and Research Trends -- Part IV Informatics -- Chapter 8 Scientific Datasets: Informetric Characteristics and Social Utility Metrics for Biodiversity Data Sources -- Chapter 9 Knowledge Discovery of Complex Networks Research Literature -- Chapter 10 Bibliometrics and University



Research Rankings Demystified for Librarians -- Part V Development of World Libraries -- Chapter 11 The Development of East Asian Libraries in North America.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the development, trends and research of library and information sciences (LIS) in the digital age. Inside, readers will find research and case studies written by LIS experts, educators and theorists, most of whom have visited China, delivered presentations there and drafted their articles based on feedback they received. As a result, readers will discover the LIS issues and concerns that China and the international community have in common. The book first introduces the opportunities and challenges faced by the library and information literacy profession and discusses the key role of librarians in the future of information literacy education. Next, it covers trends in LIS education by examining the vision of the iSchool movement and detailing its practice in Syracuse University. The book then covers issues in information seeking and retrieval by showing how visual data mining technology can be used to detect the relationship and pattern between terms on the Q&A of a social media site. It also includes a case study regarding tracing information seeking behavior and usage on a multimedia website. Next, the book stresses the importance of building an academic accreditation framework for scientific datasets, explores the relationship between bibliometrics and university rankings, and details the birth and development of East Asian Libraries in North America. Overall, the book offers readers insight into the changing nature of LIS, including the electronic dissemination of information, the impact of the Internet on libraries, the changing responsibilities of library professionals, the new paradigm for evaluating information, and characteristics and functions of today's library personnel.  .



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789373203321

Titolo

The government of life : Foucault, biopolitics, and neoliberalism / / edited by Vanessa Lemm and Miguel Vatter ; Francesco Paolo Adorno [and ten others], contributor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8232-5599-9

0-8232-5597-2

0-8232-5600-6

0-8232-6139-5

0-8232-5598-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Collana

Forms of Living

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Neoliberalism

Biopolitics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Fourth Age of Security -- 2. The Law of the House hold: Foucault, Neoliberalism, and the Iranian Revolution -- 3. The Risks of Security: Liberalism, Biopolitics, and Fear -- 4. A Genealogy of Biopolitics: The Notion of Life in Canguilhem and Foucault -- 5. Power over Life, Politics of Death: Forms of Resistance to Biopower in Foucault -- 6. Identity, Nature, Life: Three Biopolitical Deconstructions -- 7. From Reason of State to Liberalism: The Coup d’État as Form of Government -- 8. Foucault and Rawls: Government and Public Reason -- 9. Foucault and Hayek: Republican Law and Liberal Civil Society -- 10. Parrhesia between East and West: Foucault and Dissidence -- 11. The Embodiment of Truth and the Politics of Community: Foucault and the Cynics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Foucault’s late work on biopolitics and governmentality has established him as the fundamental thinker of contemporary continental political



thought and as a privileged source for our current understanding of neoliberalism and its technologies of power. In this volume, an international and interdisciplinary group of Foucault scholars examines his ideas of biopower and biopolitics and their relation to his project of a history of governmentality and to a theory of the subject found in his last courses at the College de France. Many of the chapters engage critically with the Italian theoretical reception of Foucault. At the same time, the originality of this collection consists in the variety of perspectives and traditions of reception brought to bear upon the problematic connections between biopolitics and governmentality established by Foucault’s last works.