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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ronald E Day |
ISBN: | 0809328488 9780809328482 |
OCLC Number: | 801851226 |
Description: | 139 Seiten |
Responsibility: | Ronald E. Day. |
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"This book should be required reading for all library and information science students and practitioners... Day packs together a whole series of arguments that raise fundamental questions about the purpose and practice of information studies today." - Libraries and Culture "[A] beautifully thought-through attempt to develop a historiography of information. [Day] draws together a number of threads... to make the argument that 'information,' so frequently portrayed as a purely abstract commodity, is materially textured and temporally rich." - Geoffrey C. Bowker, author of Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences" Read more...
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