Open-Source Adoption & Technological Capacity Building in Libraries – Sam PopowichDiscovery Systems LibrarianUniversity of Alberta – @redlibrarian

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Open-Source Adoption & Technological Capacity Building in Libraries

Sam PopowichDiscovery Systems LibrarianUniversity of Alberta

@redlibrarian

BA, University of Manitoba, 2003

History, Icelandic culture, political studies, slavic studies, plus one year of math and computer science.

MLIS, Dalhousie University, 2007

MA, Carleton University, 2011

Musicology and Cultural Theory

Emerging Technologies Librarian, University of Ottawa, 2008-2011 Discovery Systems Librarian, University of Alberta, 2011-

In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness.

Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, 1859

Technology, n.

All definitions drawn from the Oxford English Dictionary.

1. A discourse or treatise on an art or arts.

2. The terminology of a particular art or subject.

4a. The branch of knowledge dealing with the mechanical arts and applied sciences.

4b. The application of such knowledge for practical purposes, esp. in industry, manufacturing, etc.

5. A particular practical or industrial art; a branch of the mechanical arts or applied sciences; a technological discipline.

Librarianship as a humanist discipline

  • Scholarship
  • Research
  • Education
  • Public Service
  • Memory

Librarianship as a technological discipline

  • Description and Cataloguing
  • Archives and Preservation
  • Information Access and Retrieval
  • Bibliography
  • Data Storage and Management

Librarianship and social change

At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or – this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms – with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution. The changes in the economic foundation lead sooner or later to the transformation of the whole immense superstructure.

Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, 1859

Crisis of Librarianship or Business as Usual?

Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or,The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, 1991

Librarianship as a profession

  • Regulation
  • Autonomy
  • "Calling"
  • Engaged Labour
  • Big Picture