From Michelangelo to 2001 AD: information crafting – a new art

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Burke, M.E.^{; *}

Affiliations: Department of Library and Information Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, All Saints, Oxford Rd, Manchester M15 3BH, UK. Tel.: +44 161 247 6136; fax: +44 161 247 6351; email M.Burke@mmu.ac.uk

Note: [*] The Department of Library and Information Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University has a portfolio of revised courses ready to be launched in September 1997. All the business modules mentioned in the text of this article are still offered by the Department.

Abstract: This paper will describe and analyse the concept of information as a craft skill. In addition this paper will also discuss the way in which the Department of Library and Information Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University have crafted the new undergraduate courses. Particular attention is paid to two pathways – the business pathway and the information management pathway – which have been carved out of a whole series of options on the courses, in order that the student will achieve the ‘ideal’ he seeks.

DOI: 10.3233/EFI-1997-15103

Journal: Education for Information, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 27-33, 1997