Educating Librarians in the Contemporary University - An Essay on iSchools and Emancipatory Resilience in Library and Information Science - Grand Format

Library education is changing. At a time when librarianship is increasingly seen as part of the information industry, library and information science is also searching for its place in a new and rapidly developing university landscape. This book analyzes the development of the contemporary university in light of present critical social theory, focusing on such aspects as academic acceleration, organizational accretion and the rise of an "entrepreneurial spirit", all of which have both epistemological and organizational consequences.
As the iSchool movement relates to a view of information as a commodity and the "iField" to increased economic growth, it recontextualizes the library sector, traditionally connected to democratic development based on the ideas of the enlightenment.