Among the latest batch of memoirs enssib, here is one that synthesizes the ideological debates of the past 10 years: "Librarians face the non-technical identities: discourses and representations" Boraud Anne-memberof ( pdf).
Three profiles are used to analyze the discourse of librarians vis-à-vis the new technologies (ICT and management) :
- Feedback Policy: modernity is to reaffirm their traditional missions through new tools
- Profile Technics their modernity is fluent in the new tools
- Profile Socio-anthropological their hypermodernity is promote the development of various uses
In the first two figures, the librarian remains prescriber wishes to dominate and mediation in the third case it "must assume multiple roles, sometimes being ferryman, sometimes passenger, sometimes dominant, sometimes dominated. But it is no longer frozen on his identity is now the fear of death motivates him, without any real purpose outside. For
-purpose techniques developed in libraries keep a sense, the author believes that "librarians would benefit from thinking about their identity narrative." In their various speeches effects remain to be centered on a fixed identity, or off-center when they try to adapt for their own protection. Paradoxically, they would identify more realistic if their current renewed their utopia for society.
