Description |
xv, 336 p. ; 25 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
The nature of information / Jason Farradane -- Useful theory for librarianship: communication, not information / Brenda Dervin -- Information science: what is it? / H. Borko -- Theory in information science / A.J. Meadows -- The information society / Blaise Cronin -- Some questions for the information society / Michael Marien -- As we may think / Vannevar Bush -- Networks: the telecommunications infrastructure and impacts of change / Larry L. Learn -- Information technology and libraries: toward the year 2000 / Susan K. Martin -- Whither libraries? or, wither libraries / F. Wilfrid Lancaster -- Whose computer revolution is it? / VIncent Mosco -- On user studies and information needs / T.D. Wilson. |
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Problem dimensions and information traits / Susan E. MacMullin, Robert S. Taylor -- Technology, privacy, and electronic freedom of speech / Frances M. McDonald -- Who owns creativity? / Anne W. Branscomb -- National information policy: an insider's view / Toni Carbo Bearman -- Transborder data flow: a historical review and considerations for the future / David R. Bender -- The dangers of information control / John Shattuck, Muriel Morisey Spence -- Selection and censorship: a reappraisal / Lester Asheim -- Ethics in academic librarianship: the need for values / Kenneth G. Peterson -- Ethics for online intermediaries / Donna B. Shaver, Nancy S. Hewison, Leslie W. Wykoff -- Information malpractice: some thoughts on the professional liability of information professionals / Martha J. Dragich. |
Subject |
Information science.
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Information technology.
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Added Author |
Walker, Geraldene.
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ISBN |
0816119465 (hard : alk. paper) |
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0816119473 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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