Exploring Education for Digital Librarians : Meaning, Modes And Models
Sue. Myburgh
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Burlington : : Elsevier Science, , 2013.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (335 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Exploring Education for Digital Librarians : Meaning, modes and models; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of abbreviations; Preface; About the authors; Acknowledgements; 1. Regeneration of the second oldest profession; Introduction; From books to ideas; DLs as socio-technical systems; Education for the information professions; What digital libraries can be; What digital librarians could do; Interpersonal activity; Decoders and interventionists; Digital knowledge creation and critical thinking; Interdisciplinarity; Conclusions; Notes. - 2. The influence of the current contextContext; Abbott and the professional context; What is a 'profession'?; Context 1: the information society; Context 2: context of professions; Context 3: ICTs; Explaining ideologies; Conclusions; Notes; 3. Previous research on education for DLs; The perplexed state of education for information work; Technology and education; DL courses currently offered; DL programmes in LIS and CS; Conclusions; Note; 4. First things fourth; Unravelling long-standing ambiguities; What do librarians do?; Technical tasks; Purpose and processes; Hegemony; Selection; Access. - Digital library research and education is particularly interand multidisciplinaryFacilitating interdisciplinary work; Notes; 7. Constructing a theoretical framework; The purpose of a theoretical framework; Steps of theory construction; Step 1: clarifi cation of the axiological position of the researcher(s); Step 2: nomos, or 'existing situation'; Step 3: existing theories examined and tested teleologically; Step 4: lexical register and conceptual identifi cation; Step 5: development of alternative conceptual models in an ontology; Step 6: taxonomy of information professions. - Organisation of information resourcesThe social role of librarians and abstruse hegemony; Notes; 5. Purposeful digital librarians; The activities of the digital librarian; LIS education and ideologies; Notes; 6. No theory, no discipline = no profession; Notes towards solving these dilemmas; Theory and praxis; Distinction between theory and praxis; Disciplines; Neutrality of science; The information metacommunity; Multidisciplinary metacommunities and their metatheories; Developing an interdisciplinary metatheory. - Social responsibilities of higher education. - Step 7: model tested against purpose/ teleological assumptionsConclusions; Notes; 8. Designing curricula; Changes in LIS education; Didactics; Epistemological approaches to curriculum design; Creative industries; Cultural institutions; Interdisciplinarity; 9. Aims and outcomes; Curriculum aims; Professional philosophy and phronesis; Results and effects of the curriculum; Competencies and skills; Graduate qualities; International equivalences; Internationalisation; Notes; 10. Pedagogies and teaching methods; Teaching and learning; Use of ICTs in education. - Exploring Education for Digital Librarians provides a refreshing perspective on the discipline and profession of Library and Information Science (LIS), with a focus on preparing students for careers as librarians who can deal with present and future digital information environments. A re-examination of the knowledge base of the field, combined with a proposed theoretical structure for LIS, provide the basis for this work, which also examines competencies for practice as well as some of the international changes in the nature of higher education. The authors finally suggest a model that could b
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| ISBN | 1843346591. - 9781843346593
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