A measure of change : comparing library job advertisements of 1983 and 2003

From the perspective of all of human history, a twenty-year period— one score —is a brief moment. In the immediate context of our harried electronic age, however, twenty years are enough for three or four technological lifetimes. Indeed, the twenty years from 1983 to 2003 were witness to profound an...

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Main Author: Starr, Joan
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152560
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description From the perspective of all of human history, a twenty-year period— one score —is a brief moment. In the immediate context of our harried electronic age, however, twenty years are enough for three or four technological lifetimes. Indeed, the twenty years from 1983 to 2003 were witness to profound and rapid change that altered the very heart of the library profession, “the process of acquiring, storing, and accessing information” (Kwasik, 2002, p. 33). Prominent sociologist Manuel Castells (2000), arguing that the last quarter century ushered in a most fundamental social transformation, identified “new information technologies” (p. 693) as a key contributing factor.
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spelling ntu-10356/1525602021-09-08T20:10:28Z A measure of change : comparing library job advertisements of 1983 and 2003 Starr, Joan Library and information science From the perspective of all of human history, a twenty-year period— one score —is a brief moment. In the immediate context of our harried electronic age, however, twenty years are enough for three or four technological lifetimes. Indeed, the twenty years from 1983 to 2003 were witness to profound and rapid change that altered the very heart of the library profession, “the process of acquiring, storing, and accessing information” (Kwasik, 2002, p. 33). Prominent sociologist Manuel Castells (2000), arguing that the last quarter century ushered in a most fundamental social transformation, identified “new information technologies” (p. 693) as a key contributing factor. Published version 2021-09-03T06:41:34Z 2021-09-03T06:41:34Z 2004 Journal Article Starr, J. (2004). A measure of change : comparing library job advertisements of 1983 and 2003. Library and Information Science Research E-Journal, 14(2), 1-18. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LIBRES.2004.2.1 1058-6768 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152560 10.32655/LIBRES.2004.2.1 2 14 1 18 en Library and Information Science Research E-Journal © 2004 Joan Starr. All rights reserved. application/pdf
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