August 2023 MBR The Library Science Shelf

The Library Science Shelf

Information Literacy and the Digitalization of the Workplace
Gunilla Widen, editor
Jose Teixeira, editor
Facet Publishing
www.facetpublishing.co.uk
9781783305797, $126.95, HC, 222pp

https://www.amazon.com/Information-Literacy-Digitalization-Workplace-Gunilla/dp/1783305797

Synopsis: Digitalization has had an overwhelming impact on the workplace in recent years, making it more associable, editable, interactive, programmable, traceable, communicable and distributable. But this change comes with substantial changes to ways of working.

New technologies almost always translate into new work processes, work arrangements, collaborative engagements and thus disrupt the information environment and consolidate equilibra at work. With the publication of "Information Literacy and the Digitalization of the Workplace", co-editors Gunilla Widen and Jose Teixeira aims to bring forward the role of workplace information literacy as a key condition for successful digitalization or digital transformation in today's workplace.

Featuring contributions from leading scholars, "Information Literacy and the Digitalization of the Workplace" examines the multifaceted role of workplace information literacy in organizational operations and its role in the digitalization process, taking into account the role and perspectives of employer and employee.

Critique: Comprised of seminal and ground-breaking contributions from a roster of experience experts in the field of information science and the technology of information, "Information Literacy and the Digitalization of the Workplace" is exceptionally well organized and presented, making it an essential and core addition to personal, professional, community, corporate, college, and university library Information & Library Science collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists. It should be noted for students, academia, librarians, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that "Information Literacy and the Digitalization of the Workplace" is also readily available in a paperback edition (9781783305810, $17.95) and in a digital book format (Kindle, $54.49).

Editorial Note #1: Gunilla Widen is Professor of Information Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics,  bo Akademi University where she researches in the areas of information behaviour, information literacy, and knowledge management.

Editorial Note #2: Jose Teixeira works at the Department of Information Systems at  bo Akademi. His main research interests include open-source software, open-hardware, open-competition, open-innovation, and platform ecosystems.

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