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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820036803321

Autore

Hansson Joacim <1966->

Titolo

Educating librarians in the contemporary university : an essay on iSchools and emancipatory resilience in library and information science / / Joacim Hansson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sacramento, California : , : Library Juice Press, , 2019

ISBN

1-63400-103-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 208 pages)

Disciplina

020.711

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-201) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Building a profession, with an education to go -- On librarianship and democracy, soft and hard -- Universities and the speed of life -- The open core of Library and Information Science -- Education for librarianship moving forward.

Sommario/riassunto

"Analyzes the development of library and information science in 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'"--