The whole library handbook 3 : current data, professional advice, and curiosa about libraries and library services

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Preface = ⅸ
• 1. The Information Age = 1
• The Futurists Glimpse the New Era = 1
• The Coming of Post-Industrial Society = 3
• Enter the Critics = 5
• Technological Determinism and Its Critics = 6
• The Technocratic Vision and Its Critics = 9
• The Commodification of Information and Its Critics = 14
• Electronic Writing and the End of the Book Revisited : Displacement Theories and Their Critics = 18
• Interlude : The Popularization of the "Post-Industrial" Metaphor and the Adoption of the Information Society = 23
• Conclusion : Into the Information Society = 25
• 2. Librarians Confront the Post-Industrial Era = 27
• The Mission of Libraries in Industrial America = 27
• The Librarian as "Information Professional" = 29
• F.W. Lancaster, the "Paperless Library," and the Librarian as Information Professional = 30
• Technological Determinism and Its Critics = 38
• The Technocratic Vision and the Library Response = 40
• The Commodification of Information, the Information Industry, and Information Inequities in American Society = 44
• Conclusion : Library and Information Services in the Post-Industrial Era = 49
• 3. State, Capital, and National Information Policy = 51
• Thinking About the Role of the State in National Information Policy = 52
• Theories of the State = 52
• Privatization, Free Markets, and the U.S. Information Industry = 56
• The New Politics of Information = 57
• Legitimation and Accumulation in State Information Policy = 58
• President Clinton as the First Post-Industrial Democrat = 62
• Demonized Adversaries : Privatization = 69
• Current Prospects : Progress or Despair = 71
• Libraries in the Era of Information as Commodity = 74
• Conclusion = 76
• 4. Neutrality, Objectivity, Information Professionals, and Librarians = 79
• Introduction = 80
• Daniel Bell Defines the Emerging Information Professions = 80
• The Very Idea of an "Information Profession" : The Sociology of Professional Development = 85
• Where Do Librarians Fit in? A Note on the Sociology of Librarianship = 89
• Librarians as Information Professionals : The Attempt to Forge a New Professional Identity = 91
• The Rise of the Information Paradigm : F.W. Lancaster and "Future Librarianship" = 94
• 5. Work in the Post-Industrial Era = 103
• Introduction = 103
• Contra-Bell : Harry Braverman and the Degradation and Deskilling of Work in Post-Industrial America = 105
• Persistent Labor Market Segmentation in the Post-Industrial Workplace = 110
• Shoshana Zuboff on the Informated Workplace of the Information Era = 114
• IT : Challenge for the Next Decade = 116
• 6. Conclusion : A Prologue to Library and Information Services in the Post-Industrial Era = 119
• "All that Is Solid Melts Into Air" = 120
• Totality and Vision : Library and Information Service on the Post-Industrial "Landscape" = 121
• Capitalism, Capitalism, Capitalism = 122
• Essentially Contested Concepts : Freedom, Equality, Neutrality = 125
• References = 131
• Author Index = 151
• Subject Index = 157