Cultural Synergy in Information Institutions

ISBN-13: 9781493954681 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 82 str.

Richard Smiraglia

Opis

Cultural forces govern a synergistic relationship among information institutions that shapes their roles collectively and individually. The book addresses the origins of cultural information institutions, the history of the professions that run them, and the social imperative of information organization as a catalyst for semantic synergy.

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Cultural Synergy and the Role of Information Institutions.- Chapter 2. The Nature of Information.- Chapter 3. What is (are) Information Studies?.- Chapter 4. The Synergistic Information Professions: Applications of the Information Process.- Chapter 5. Some History of Libraries, Library and Information Science, Information Technology.- Chapter 6. Gatekeepers: Information Dissemination.- Chapter 7. Knowledge Organization: Bibliography as Synergic Catalyst.- Chapter 8. Into the Future Boldly: The Imperative for Cultural Synergy.