Information and society / Michael Buckland.
By: Buckland, Michael Keeble [author.].
Series: The MIT Press essential knowledge series.Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]Description: xiv, 217 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780262533386 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Information science -- Sociological aspects | Communication -- Social aspects | Documentation -- Social aspects | Information society | Informationsgesellschaft | 05.20 communication and societyGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | HM851 .B82 2017 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000012630 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-213) and index.
Introduction -- Document and evidence -- Individual and community -- Organizing: arrangement and description -- Naming -- Metadata -- Discovery and selection -- Evaluation of selection methods -- Summary and conclusions.
"A concise, informal account of the ways in which information and society are related, and of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data."