The sound of a librarian: the politics potential of podcasting in difficult times
Tara Brabazon
Abstract:
Quite unexpectedly, the Information Age has not provided a golden era for librarians. The de-skilling of information literacy and a decline in public funding has resulted in librarians fighting for their professionalism, knowledge and ability, as much as for their jobs. This chapter explores how libraries and librarians are using podcasts not only to fulfil an outreach function to build a community of users, but to demonstrate the value of an information professional in an age of excessive information.
Key words
librarianship
information management
information literacy
iPod
podcasting
Michael Moore’s Stupid White Men was a publishing ...
Get Digital Dialogues and Community 2.0 now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
