1st Edition
Libr@ries Changing Information Space and Practice
360 Pages
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Routledge
356 Pages
by
Routledge
360 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume is the first to examine the social, cultural, and political implications of the shift from the traditional forms and functions of print-based libraries to the delivery of online information in educational contexts. Libr@ries are conceptualized as physical places, virtual spaces, communities of literate practice, and discourses of information work. Despite the centrality of... Read more
Contents: M.A. Peters, Foreword. Introduction. C. Kapitzke, B.C. Bruce, Rewriting Libraries: Space, Knowledge, and Capital. Part I: Arobase Space. N.C. Burbules, Digital Libraries as Virtual Spaces. S. Boyce, Literacy Spaces--Library Design. M. Dressman, S. Tettegah, Ordered by Desire: School Libraries in Past and Present Times. J. Schmidt, From Library to Cybrary: Changing the Focus of Library Design and Service Delivery. A.A. Goodrum, Surrogation, Mediation, and Collaboration: Access to Digital Images in Cultural Heritage Institutions. Part II: Arobase Knowledge. J. Hunter, Next Generation Metadata Tools: Supporting Dynamic Knowledge Bases. D. Rooney, U. Schneider, Knowledge Management and Research in Cybraries. L. Barwick, N. Thieberger, Cybraries in Paradise: New Technologies and Ethnographic Repositories. C. Kapitzke, Redefining Libraries by Rethinking Research. Part III: Arobase Capital. J. Willinsky, The Scholarly Wing of the Public Cybrary and the Right to Know. T.W. Luke, The Politics and Philosophy of E-Text: Use Value, Sign Value, and Exchange Value in the Transition From Print to Digital Media. M.L. Kornbluh, M. Shell-Weiss, P. Turnbull, Alternatives to Pay-for-View: The Case for Open Access to Historical Research and Scholarship. B. Fabos, Search Engine Anatomy: The Industry and Its Commercial Structure. P. Graham, Monopoly, Monopsony, and the Value of Culture in a Digital Age: An Axiology of Two Multimedia Resource Repositories. B. Fitzgerald, Structuring Open Access to Knowledge: The Creative Commons Story. B.C. Bruce, C. Kapitzke, The Arobase in the Library--The Library in Society.
Biography
Cushla Kapitzke, Bertram C. Bruce
"That information is the vital element in a 'new' politics and economy linking space, knowledge, and capital is the central theme and premise of this provocative and compelling [volume]....This is a vital collection to be read not only by teachers, libraries, and academics of all persuasions, but also, more broadly, by the general reading public."
—Michael A. Peters
University of Glasgow, From the Foreword
