User-Centered Discourse: An Analysis of the Subject Positions of the User and the Librarian.

Tuominen, Kimmo

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Publication Date: 1997

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User-Centered Discourse: An Analysis of the Subject Positions of the User and the Librarian.

Tuominen, Kimmo

Library Quarterly, v67 n4 p350-71 Oct 1997

A discourse analysis of a user-centered library and information science text determined that users and librarians were positioned in an unequal power relationship. Calls for critical reflexivity in how scholars and practitioners of library and information science construct the identities of people as information seekers and users. (59 references) (PEN)

Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Discourse Communities, Higher Education, Information Science Education, Information Seeking, Librarians, Library Science, Rhetoric, Users (Information)

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