Library and Information Science


Foundations of Library and Information Science
Management Basics for Information Professionals
The Organization of Information (Library and Information Science Text Series)
Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences
Reference and Information Services: An Introduction (Library & Information Science Text)
Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Introduction to Information Science
BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior (Library and Information Science)
Basic Research Methods for Librarians (Library and Information Science Text Series)
Developing Library and Information Center Collections
The Story of Libraries: From the Invention of Writing to the Computer Age
We know that we are continually subjected to a huge range of sensory inputs and internal experiences of sensations and thoughts. In fact, almost anything existing in our universe, that can come into human and other animals' purview, can be experienced as information - a bird call, our friend's 'hello,' the rock we trip over, the intuition we have about the honesty of someone we are talking to, a book we read. ...more
Marcia J. Bates

People do not just use information that is easy to find; they even use information that they know to be of poor quality and less reliable, so long as it requires little effort to find, rather than using information they know to be of high quality and reliable, though harder to find.
Marcia Bates

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Margaret A. Edwards was a seminal force in creating young adult spaces in libraries. Edwards aut…more
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