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Information Science Books
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as information-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,336 ratings — published 2011
Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,470 ratings — published 2007
The Organization of Information (Library and Information Science Text Series)
by (shelved 14 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.10 — 1,046 ratings — published 1997
Foundations of Library and Information Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.34 — 1,143 ratings — published 1998
This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.42 — 4,845 ratings — published 2010
Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 447 ratings — published 1999
Introduction to Information Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.62 — 172 ratings — published 2012
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as information-science)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,734 ratings — published 1983
The Social Life of Information (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,069 ratings — published 2000
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.87 — 30,622 ratings — published 2016
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,836 ratings — published 1998
Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,052 ratings — published 2012
Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,356 ratings — published 2005
Reference and Information Services in the 21st Century : An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.48 — 839 ratings — published 2006
Glut: Mastering Information through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.76 — 442 ratings — published 2007
Information and Society (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
by (shelved 5 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.28 — 144 ratings — published
The Library Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 126,682 ratings — published 2018
Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.79 — 204 ratings — published 2014
Cataloging and Classification: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.20 — 354 ratings — published 1981
Metadata for Digital Collections: A How-to-Do-It Manual (How-To-Do-It Manual Series (for Librarians))
by (shelved 5 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.82 — 129 ratings — published 2011
The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.79 — 5,512 ratings — published 2011
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as information-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 29,329 ratings — published 1999
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,433 ratings — published 2021
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,998 ratings — published 2018
Information: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.42 — 450 ratings — published 2010
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 21,428 ratings — published 2014
The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.35 — 947 ratings — published 2009
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as information-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 40,271 ratings — published 2014
Informace, komunikace a myšlení: úvod do informační vědy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.83 — 41 ratings — published 1998
Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.71 — 793 ratings — published 2001
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 52,834 ratings — published 2012
Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as information-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 926 ratings — published 2006
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.89 — 8,026 ratings — published 2010
Management Basics for Information Professionals (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.27 — 409 ratings — published 2000
Providing Reference Services for Archives & Manuscripts (Archival Fundamentals Series)
by (shelved 4 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.24 — 83 ratings — published 1992
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.89 — 33,499 ratings — published 2010
Introduction to Metadata (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.59 — 74 ratings — published 2008
The Portable MLIS: Insights from the Experts (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.53 — 234 ratings — published 2008
Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior (Library and Information Science)
by (shelved 4 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.19 — 277 ratings — published 2002
The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing)
by (shelved 4 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.19 — 140 ratings — published 2000
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.42 — 986 ratings — published 2001
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as information-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 204,710 ratings — published 2018
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as information-science)
avg rating 4.52 — 496 ratings — published 2002
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as information-science)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,898 ratings — published 2015
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 123,224 ratings — published 1998
Metadata (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.79 — 410 ratings — published 2015
Complexity: A Guided Tour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as information-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,611 ratings — published 2009
Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.79 — 382 ratings — published 2014
BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.43 — 951 ratings — published 2015
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as information-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 123,632 ratings — published 2007
“And better still, reference librarians served well in the role that the internet never did: They were the perfect bouncers at the door of bad information. Or, put differently, they were the best vectors to transmit truth.”
― Wanderers
― Wanderers
“Librarians are on the front lines of an invisible struggle over our information diet and, for better or worse, the scales are not tipping in their direction.”
― Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become
― Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become
