Share Paper: The "Post-IT" Curatorial Challenge

  1. Helge Hoivik, Learning Center and Library, Oslo and Akershus University College, Norway
  2. Tord Høivik, Oslo and Akershus University College, Norway
Tuesday, October 22 10:00 AM-11:00 AM Champagne 2

Abstract: Within academia the libraries and learning centers are caretakers and therefore stakeholders of an emerging textual universe. It is driven by the more general transition from industrial to knowledge based economies and is marked by new socio-economic conditions for the intelligentsia, the algorithmic approach to work and study and new types of social discourse. These developments require profound changes in the way we educate children, students and adults. Re-engineering, remediation and recombination of educational texts and contexts are of particular importance. The Internet cloud and mobile client systems constitute the medium for such changes. Libraries have experienced at close range ...