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The evolution of the information professional: Thoughts on innovation in “librarianship” and practical solutions for future candidates from IVA
The original organiser behind DST4L – Chris Erdmann – believes that librarians possess basic skills that, in combination with stronger IT skills and analytical skills, could become an extremely powerful data scientist librarian profile. How does that reflect in the minds of a student and teacher from the Royal School of Library and Information Science (IVA)
Review of Torben Bech Dyrberg, Foucault on the Politics of Parrhesia (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), i-vi, 1-141, electronic £36.99 (UK), ISBN: 978-1-137-36835-5
Brian Lightbody, Philosophical Genealogy I: An epistemological reconstruction of Nietzsche and Foucault's Genealogical Method (New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc., 2010).
Jean-Francois Bert and Elisabetta Basso (eds.), Foucault à Münsterlingen; À l’origine de l’Histoire de la folie, Avec des photographies de Jacqueline Verdeaux (Paris: Éditions de l’école des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2015)
Business Ethnography: Inducing Liminality in Pursuit of Innovation
Ethnographic studies have become an integral part of many projects at Xerox: guiding product improvements, inspiring new product concepts, uncovering technology and organizational issues, and informing strategic directions. Ethnographic methods provide a deep understanding of technology usage in context and have the potential to shift the perspectives of the researchers themselves, the study participants, and the business stakeholders. These transformations facilitate the creation of innovative solutions that are meaningful and useful for the practitioners they are designed to support. In this article, we draw on three case studies to demonstrate how ethnographic methods invoke liminality, and how these studies support transformation in the perspectives of the researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders who participate in the studies