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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 be used internationally to educate librarians for their new roles and social responsibilities in a digitised, networked world. The twelve chapters of this book cover key issues in education for digital librarians, including: the necessity of regenerating the profession; current contexts; previous research on education for digital librarians; understanding the dimensions of the discipline and profession of librarianship, and the distinctions between them; the social purpose of librarianship as a profession and the theoretical framework which supports the practice of the profession; a brief analysis of curriculum design, pedagogies and teaching methods, and a glimpse of the proactive and important future role of librarianship in society.

Table of Contents:
Dedication List of figures and tables List of abbreviations Preface About the authors Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Regeneration of the second oldest profession Abstract: 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 Chapter 2: The influence of the current context Abstract: Context 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 Chapter 3: Previous research on education for DLs Abstract: The perplexed state of education for information work Technology and education DL courses currently offered DL programmes in LIS and CS Conclusions Chapter 4: First things fourth Abstract: Unravelling long-standing ambiguities What do librarians do? Technical tasks Purpose and processes Hegemony Selection Access Organisation of information resources The social role of librarians and abstruse hegemony Chapter 5: Purposeful digital librarians Abstract: The activities of the digital librarian LIS education and ideologies Chapter 6: No theory, no discipline = no profession Abstract: 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 Digital library research and education is particularly inter- and multidisciplinary Facilitating interdisciplinary work Chapter 7: Constructing a theoretical framework Abstract: The purpose of a theoretical framework Steps of theory construction Step 1: clarification 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 identification Step 5: development of alternative conceptual models in an ontology Step 6: taxonomy of information professions Step 7: model tested against purpose/teleological assumptions Conclusions Chapter 8: Designing curricula Abstract: Changes in LIS education Didactics Epistemological approaches to curriculum design Creative industries Cultural institutions Interdisciplinarity Chapter 9: Aims and outcomes Abstract: Curriculum aims Professional philosophy and phronesis Results and effects of the curriculum Competencies and skills Graduate qualities International equivalences Internationalisation Chapter 10: Pedagogies and teaching methods Abstract: Teaching and learning Use of ICTs in education Social responsibilities of higher education Epistemological frameworks for learning Social constructivism Social constructionism Connectivism Three common modes of teaching/learning Critical pedagogy as heutagogical The Socratic method Online learning and heutagogy Education, culture and internationalisation Digital and critical literacy, critical thinking Chapter 11: Content and structure Abstract: Substance and speculation Theoretical framework Human information behaviour Knowledge creation Representation of information: language and linguistics Evaluation of information: interpretation, meaning and critical information literacy Evaluating information economically Technology and other ‘stuff’ Level of programme Structure Metacommunity Core Chapter 12: A bright future Abstract: The past and the future Libraries and freedom of thought Democracy and social role Metacommunity and agreement Changed service model Evaluation of the social role of librarians New profile Research for the future References Index

About the Author :
Sue Myburgh is currently Program Director of two postgraduate programs – in Knowledge Management and Internet Communication Strategies - at the University of South Australia. She has been involved in many aspects of the theory and practice of Information Management internationally over the last two decades. Amongst various honours received, she was a Fulbright Scholar and has been awarded the Britt Literary Award by the Association of Records Managers and Administrators International. Anna Maria Tammaro is currently Professor at the University of Parma, Italy. She is also Local Co-ordinator of the International Master’s in Digital Library Learning (DILL), Chair of IFLA Division IV, and an IFLA Governing Board member. Anna Maria has extensive experience in academic librarianship, having been the Librarian at the University of Florence and the University of Bologna, Italy.

Review :
"The authors position librarians as information workers in the first few chapters and introduce the concept of ‘digital libraries’ and ‘digital librarians’ as change agents (in the context of knowledge creation and knowledge sharing, rather than simply knowledge capture and containment)."--The Australian Library Journal, Vol. 63, No. 1, 2014


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  • ISBN-13: 9781843346593
  • Publisher: Woodhead Publishing Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Chandos Information Professional Series
  • Weight: 521 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1843346591
  • Publisher Date: 17 Apr 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 334
  • Sub Title: Meaning, Modes and Models


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