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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael H Harris; Stan A Hannah; Pamela C Harris |
| ISBN: | 1567503543 9781567503548 1567503551 9781567503555 |
| OCLC Number: | 37211169 |
| Description: | xi, 159 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. The Information Age. The Futurists Glimpse the New Era. The Coming of Post Industrial Society. Enter the Critics. Technological Determinism and Its Critics. The Technocratic Vision and Its Critics. The Commodification of Information and Its Critics. Electronic Writing and the End of the Book Revisited: Displacement Theories and Their Critics. Interlude: The Popularization of the "Post Industrial" Metaphor and the Adoption of the Information Society. Conclusion: Into the Information Society 2. Librarians Confront the Post Industrial Era. The Mission of Libraries in Industrial America. The Librarian as "Information Professional" F. W. Lancaster, the "Paperless Library," and the Librarian as Information Professional. Technological Determinism and Its Critics. The Technocratic Vision and the Library Response. The Commodification of Information, the Information Industry, and Information Inequities in American Society. Conclusion: Library and Information Services in the Post Industrial Era 3. State, Capital, and National Information Policy. Thinking About the Role of the State in National Information Policy. Theories of the State. Privatization, Free Markets, and the U.S. Information Industry. The New Politics of Information. Legitimation and Accumulation in State Information Policy. President Clinton as the First Post Industrial Democrat. Demonized Adversaries: Privatization. Current Prospects: Progress or Despair. Libraries in the Era of Information as Commodity. Conclusion 4. Neutrality, Objectivity, Information Professionals, and Librarians. Introduction. Daniel Bell Defines the Emerging Information Professions. The Very Idea of an "Information Profession": The Sociology of Professional Development. Where Do Librarians Fit in? A Note on the Sociology of Librarianship. Librarians as Information Professio |
| Series Title: | Contemporary studies in information management, policy, and services |
| Responsibility: | by Michael H. Harris, Stan A. Hannah, and Pamela C. Harris. |
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