We live in an information society, or so we are often told. But what does that mean? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise, informal ac
This book tells the story of Emanuel Goldberg, a chemist, inventor, and industrialist who contributed to almost every aspect of imaging technology in the first half of the 20th century. Despite his a
Buckland offers an examination of information systems that is comparative rather than narrowly technical in approach. Using explicitly defined terms, he interprets the nature of retrieval-based inform
As a founder of the Japan Library School (now the School of Library and Information Science) at Keio U. in 1951, Gitler (b. 1909) reminisces about the development of librarianship in Japan as well as
A call to redirect the intellectual focus of information retrieval and science (IR&S) toward the phenomenon of technology-mediated experience.In this book, Sachi Arafat and Elham Ashoori issue a c
