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Information and Knowledge Professions (Technology (Advantages…
Information and Knowledge Professions
Information
Defined: data that has been processed within a context.
Library and Information Science: "an interdisciplinary domain concerned with the creation, management, and uses of information in all its forms." (Estabrook, 2009, p. 3287) - Module 1
Library Science and Information Science are interwoven, difficult to truly separate. Perhaps the only difference between them is the setting in which they take place.
Libraries
Information centers
Museums
Hospitals
Academic institutions and schools
Careers
Archives
Records Management
Library and info services
Info policy
Social computing
Human-computer interaction
Info systems management
Info analysis and retrieval
"Libraries, much like any living breathing organism, will have to adapt to the complex nature of the ever-changing world of information. As information becomes more sophisticated and complex, so will libraries." (Frey, 2012) - Module 9
Technology
Challenges
Privacy/confidentiality
Copyright
Digital Divide
Budgetary restrictions
Advantages
Collaborative education and work
Sharable resources
Adaptability to user needs
Socially rich (Maness, 2006)
Global interconnection
Developments
20th century: microphotography, library automation through computer application, MARC, CD-ROMs, OPACs, growth of WWW and Internet.
21st century
Web 2.0 is "a web of multi-sensory communication... a matrix of dialogues... a user-centered Web in ways it has not been thus far." (Maness, 2006, paragraph 1) - Module 8
Ebooks and e-readers
E-resources
Physical space with the future in mind
People
The User
User needs
Services should always be user-centered
The LIS Professional
Librarian 2.0: adaptable, collaborative, marketer, active learner, innovative, leadership abilities, etc.(Partridge, et al. 2010)
Professional vs. personal ethics
Librarians should "shift from a focus on creating access to resources to creating meaningful relationships with community members- both those who use and those who don't use our libraries." (Bell, 2009, p. 51) - Module 4
Diversity
Diverse populations have been underserved and/or underrepresented in the past
Reading experience (lack)
Economic status
Homeless status
LGBTQ+
Age
Ethnicity
Disability
"...user needs are not fixed, they're not the same for every person, they're not the same in every context, and they're not the same all of the time." (Laidler, 2017, p. 40) - Module 6
Community-Based Librarianship
Diversity in users and professionals
Technology changes our relationship with information
