Specificity vs. Abstraction: The Library as Mediator of Humanities and Technology Values

Specificity vs. Abstraction: The Library as Mediator of Humanities and Technology Values (Moveable Types of Information Literacy) While deconstruction and postmodernism have challenged the traditional dusty-tome humanities methodology that aims to construct a specific “correct” text, by continuing to react against the ideal text, contemporary humanities scholarship reveals its dependency upon the central ideal. That ideal…

Postmodern Peer Review and Emerging Genres

Postmodern Peer Review and Emerging Genres (Moveable Types of Information Literacy) We find it quaint that Vannevar Bush would try to do hypertext with an automated, user-writeable microfiche. It is similarly quaint that a library database be optimized to deliver PDF documents or other facsimiles of the printed page. Native electronic journals offer cutting-edge, peer-reviewed scholarship,…

Moveable Types of Information Literacy: Emerging Genres and the Deconstruction of Peer Review

Moveable Types of Information Literacy: Emerging Genres and the Deconstruction of Peer Review (Jerz’s Literacy Weblog) Presented Oct 9, at the Georgia Conference on Information Literacy Information Literacy: One Faculty View Whispering the News to Marian: Libraries on Fire Specificity vs. Abstraction: The Library as Mediator of Humanities and Technology Values Postmodern Peer Review and Emerging…