Victoria Martin

Transdisciplinarity Revealed (eBook, PDF)

What Librarians Need to Know

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

An invaluable book on the emergent field of transdisciplinarity that explains how it applies to library service and collections conceptually and identifies practical strategies for supporting transdisciplinary research conducted by faculty and students. Transdisciplinarity Revealed: What Librarians Need to Know supplies pragmatic advice for academic librarians on working with faculty and students to promote the skills necessary for successful transdisciplinary research. It shows how to overcome the obstacles created by the ways that libraries have traditionally organized information in subject silos, offering librarians conceptual and practical guidance on transdisciplinarity. This information will enable them to support research that transcends disciplinary limits to help researchers answer the complex questions of our world today. Part I provides an overview of the emergent field of transdisciplinarity that introduces readers to all key concepts and issues. Part II explains how transdisciplinarity applies to library services and collections, explores new strategies for supporting transdisciplinary research conducted by faculty and students, and describes how librarians can better address the unique challenges of working in the transdisciplinary research environment. Readers will come away with a full understanding of the distinctions between the four modes of knowledge production-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinarity-and apply this knowledge to benefit their patrons' research efforts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781440843488
• Artikelnr.: 68183788

Autorenporträt

Victoria Martin is a librarian with more than 18 years of professional experience in academic librarianship.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Alfonso Montuori Preface Acknowledgments List of Acronyms Part One
In Search of Unity: An Introduction to Transdisciplinarity Chapter 1 A
Neologism with Ancient Roots: The Challenge of Defining Transdisciplinarity
Chapter 2 Transdisciplinarity in Retrospect: Origins and Benchmark Events
Chapter 3 Transdisciplinarity: An Elusive Concept Chapter 4 From Scientific
Research to Societal Benefit: The Need for Transdisciplinarity Chapter 5
The Disciplinary Continuum: From Disciplinarity to Transdisciplinarity
Chapter 6 Transdisciplinary Research as a Collaborative Enterprise:
Promises and Challenges of Transdisciplinary Initiatives Chapter 7
Scholarly Communication in the Transdisciplinary Context: What Has Changed
and What Has Remained the Same Chapter 8 Transdisciplinarity in Practice:
Projects, Funding, and Evaluation Criteria Chapter 9 The Vision of a
Transdisciplinary University Part Two A Natural Fit: Transdisciplinarity
and Librarianship Chapter 10 Why Do Librarians Need to Know about
Transdisciplinarity? Chapter 11 Envisioning a Universal Classification:
Transdisciplinarity and Knowledge Organization Chapter 12 Filling
Collection Gaps: Areas of Concern and Possible Solutions Chapter 13
Librarians as Boundary Intermediaries: Implications of Transdisciplinarity
for Reference Services Chapter 14 The Process of Becoming: Reflections on
Transdisciplinary Learning and Information Literacy Instruction Chapter 15
Becoming a Transdisciplinary Librarian: From Catching Up to Leading the Way
Conclusion: Looking Ahead Appendix A: Annotated Bibliography Appendix B:
Notable Theorists, Educators, and Advocates Glossary References Index