Download or read book The Social Transcript written by Charles B. Osburn and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many glimpses into what might be called library philosophy are scattered throughout the literatures of library history and library and information science, but none has coalesced as yet. Conversely, theories relative to the operation of libraries, rather than relative to why their operations are necessary in the first place, are exceedingly abundant. At the heart of both resides function. On the one hand, the "concept of" a library reflects a rational social process, its genesis and survival the result of each succeeding generation embracing the same core values as the one before. At the same time, "practice in" the library is bounded by both the experiences and expectations of the public, and our choice and treatment of topic in our scholarly and professional literature. Not surprisingly, fundamental misunderstandings are shared among public, scholar, and librarian about what the library is and why it exists. Adapting the work of Kenneth Boulding, Charles Osburn presents a cogent, well substantiated explanation of why the library refuses to cede its position as a cultural icon; and how it not only continues but flourishes throughout the trials and errors of civilization. -- Back cover.
Download or read book Knowledge and Knowing in Library and Information Science written by John Budd and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2001-05-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark work traces the heritage of thought, from the beginnings of modern science in the seventeenth century, until today, that has influenced the profession of library and information science.
Download or read book A Philosophy of Librarianship written by A. Broadfield and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue de la tr s belle biblioth que form e et d laiss e par Mr Louis Caspar Luzac La vente se fera le 3 juin 1872 Leide par les libraires Van der Hoek Fr res et Frederik Muller etc written by van der HOEK (Gebroeders.) and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toward a Philosophy of Educational Librarianship written by John M. Christ and published by Littleton, Colo : Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1972 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Philosophy of Information Quality written by Luciano Floridi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work fulfills the need for a conceptual and technical framework to improve understanding of Information Quality (IQ) and Information Quality standards. The meaning and practical implementation of IQ are addressed, as it is relevant to any field where there is a need to handle data and issues such as accessibility, accuracy, completeness, currency, integrity, reliability, timeliness, usability, the role of metrics and so forth are all a part of Information Quality. In order to support the cross-fertilization of theory and practice, the latest research is presented in this book. The perspectives of experts from beyond the origins of IQ in computer science are included: library and information science practitioners and academics, philosophers of information, of engineering and technology, and of science are all contributors to this volume. The chapters in this volume are based on the work of a collaborative research project involving the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Google and led by Professor Luciano Floridi, University of Oxford. This work will be of interest to anyone handling data, including those from commercial, public, governmental and academic organizations. The expert editors’ contributions introduce issues of interest to scientists, database curators and philosophers, even though the issues may be disguised in the language and examples common to a different discipline.
Download or read book Bulletin Scientifique written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Library and information science and the philosophy of science written by and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This e-book is concerned with metatheories in Library and Information Science (LIS) and especially with the philosophy of science of LIS. Metatheories are theories about the description, investigation, analysis or criticism of the theories in a domain.
Download or read book Humanism and Libraries written by André Cossette and published by Library Juice Press, LLC. This book was released on 2009 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andr Cossette's Humanism and Libraries is a concise but rigorous investigation into the foundations of librarianship-its definition and its aims. Philosophical and logical in its approach, it is intended to provide solid ground and unity for professional practice. Though the work was originally published in French in 1976 in Quebec by ASTED, Library Juice Press has found it to have enduring relevance and value, and has therefore made this English translation. The book includes a preface that makes the case for reading a work from the 1970s on library philosophy, and a set of "questions for reflection" following the text.
Download or read book Information Cultures in the Digital Age written by Matthew Kelly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For several decades Rafael Capurro has been at the forefront of defining the relationship between information and modernity through both phenomenological and ethical formulations. In exploring both of these themes Capurro has re-vivified the transcultural and intercultural expressions of how we bring an understanding of information to bear on scientific knowledge production and intermediation. Capurro has long stressed the need to look deeply into how we contextualize the information problems that scientific society creates for us and to re-incorporate a pragmatic dimension into our response that provides a balance to the cognitive turn in information science. With contributions from 35 scholars from 15 countries, Information Cultures in the Digital Age focuses on the culture and philosophy of information, information ethics, the relationship of information to message, the historic and semiotic understanding of information, the relationship of information to power and the future of information education. This Festschrift seeks to celebrate Rafael Capurro’s important contribution to a global dialogue on how information conceptualisation, use and technology impact human culture and the ethical questions that arise from this dynamic relationship.
Download or read book Library Power written by James Thompson and published by [Hamden, Conn.] : Linnet Books. This book was released on 1974 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Fichte et la France written by Ives Radrizzani and published by Editions Beauchesne. This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pour plusieurs générations, Fichte a servi d'épouvantail idéaliste, produit extrême du dérèglement de la faculté spéculative, figure emblématique de l'orgueil humain dans sa tentative prométhéenne de tirer de la cuisse de son Moi nature, société et même Dieu. L'histoire de la réception de la philosophie fichtéenne en France se résume pour l'essentiel à la répétition d'une grossière erreur d'interprétation, propagée par les adversaires de l'entreprise transcendantale (Jacobi, Reinhold, Hegel), importe en France par Degérando et imposée par Victor Cousin. Par-delà la non-rencontre historique, les articles réunis dans ce volume tentent d'amorcer une rencontre d'ordre systématique. Dégagée des erreurs qui en viciaient fondamentalement la compréhension, la philosophie fichtéenne n'apparaît plus si " étrange " et " étrangère ". La confrontation avec d'illustres représentants de divers courants de la tradition française (Descartes, Rousseau, Maine de Biran, Lequier, Proudhon, Bergson, Sartre, Levinas) permet de mettre en évidence de multiples points de convergence, fait entrevoir la possibilité d'enrichissements réciproques et esquisse des pistes à exploiter pour affronter les problèmes du monde contemporain. Ce premier tome, destiné à poser des jalons pour une approche renouvelée de la subtile relation entre Fichte et la philosophie française, sera complété par un second tome (à paraître en 1998) consacré à l'image de la France et des Français chez Fichte, et par un troisième tome (à l'étude), consacré à l'image de Fichte dans la littérature et la philosophie françaises.
Download or read book Bulletin de l UNESCO l intention des biblioth ques written by Unesco and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wittgenstein Language and Information Back to the Rough Ground written by David Blair and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-05-16 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The more narrowly we examine language, the sharper becomes the con?ict - tween it and our requirement. (For the crystalline purity of logic was, of course, not a result of investigation; it was a requirement. ) The con?ict becomes intolerable; the requirement is now in danger of becoming empty. —We have got onto slippery ice where there is no friction and so in a certain sense the conditions are ideal, but also, just because of that, we are unable to walk. We want to walk; so we need 1 friction. Back to the rough ground!” —Ludwig Wittgenstein This manuscript consists of four related parts: a brief overview of Wittgenstein’s p- losophy of language and its relevance to information systems; a detailed explanation of Wittgenstein’s late philosophy of language and mind; an extended discussion of the re- vance of his philosophy to understanding some of the problems inherent in information systems, especially those systems which rely on retrieval based on some representation of the intellectual content of that information. And, fourthly, a series of detailed footnotes which cite the sources of the numerous quotations and provide some discussion of the related issues that the text inspires. The ?rst three of these parts can each be read by itself with some pro?t, although they are related and do form a conceptual whole.
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