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    LIS 691 The Virtual Library - Crises and Controversies
    Week Four: Librarians - Deskilled, Reskilled or Wiped Out ?

    Debate Topic:

    "Despite Fashionable talk about professional empowerment through technology, the basic tendency of computerization is to de-skill librarians"

    Readings:

    Harris, Michael H. and Stan A. Hannah. Into the Future: The Foundation of Library and Informaion Services in the Post-Industrial Era (Second Ed., Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1998) Ch.4 "Neutrality, Objectivity, Information Professionals, and Librarians" and Ch.5 " "Work In The Post-Industrial Era"

    Winter, Michael F. "Librarianship, Technology and the LAbour Process: Theoretical Perspectives" in Critical Approaches to Information Technology in Librarianship: Foundations and Applications ed. John Buschman (Westport, Conn: Greenwood, 1993) 173-196

    Friedman, Mathew Fuzzy Logic Ch.7

    See also (for this week or next)
    Harris, Roma. "Information Technology and the Deskilling of Librarians" Encyclopedia of LIbrary and Information Science 53, Supplement 16, 1994. 182-201

    Last revised: July 6, 1999
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