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What did you do before Google? The rise of Google as the dominant Internet search provider reflects a generationally-inflected notion that everything that matters is now on the Web, and should, in the moral sense of the verb, be accessible through search. In this theoretically nuanced study of...
To Be Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
For the past decade, e-mail has been the preferred method of internal communication in libraries. However, relying on email for organizational knowledge management seems a bit like storing birth certificates, car titles, and deeds in a pile of junk mail: the important documents are lost amongst...
To Be Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Participatory design is about the direct involvement of people in the co-design of the technologies they use. Its central concern is how collaborative design processes can be driven by the participation of the people affected by the technology designed. Embracing a diverse collection of principles...
To Be Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
Given the continuing cataclysmic shift in the economic landscape in the last few years, librarians have been forced to reevaluate not only the traditional services that they offer but also their continued existence and relevance to their academic institutions. Given the ‘new normal’ of tighter...
To Be Published August 21st 2012 by Routledge
Nationwide, and indeed worldwide, there has been a growing awareness of the importance of access to information. Accordingly, information technology (IT), broadly defined and its role beyond the internal workings of businesses has leapt into the social consciousness. Diving into the Bitstream...
To Be Published September 6th 2012 by Routledge
The essays presented in this book reflect revised papers delivered at the Research Library in the 21st Century Symposium, held at The University of Texas at Austin, September 2006. Internationally known library, museum, information agency, and higher education administrators have contributed their...
To Be Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
The rapid development and the growing penetration of information and communication technologies (ICT) provide tremendous opportunities for a wide and cost effective application of the ideas of participative democracy and public participation in government decision and policy making. ICT can drive...
To Be Published September 16th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society
We are often told that we are 'living in an information society' or that we are 'information workers'. But what exactly do these claims mean, and how might they be verified? In this important methodological study, Alistair Duff cuts through the rhetoric to get to the bottom of the 'information...
To Be Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics
The financial crisis of 2008 has posed a challenge to traditional macroeconomics, which has had severe troubles in producing relevant insights. Part of this problem is the inability of the theoretical models to keep up with changes in the methodological framework. This new volume from Torstein...
To Be Published December 30th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Critical Concepts in Political Science
Information Science is concerned with the speculative and practical aspects of effective information provision and consumption. In particular, information scientists explore the theoretical underpinnings and practical competencies involved in the generation, collection, organization, processing,...
To Be Published January 14th 2013 by Routledge
