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008			210528s2017 maua b 001 0 eng
020			_a9780262533386 _q(pbk. ; _qalk. paper)
020			_a0262533383 _q(pbk. ; _qalk. paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)958098988
050			_aHM851 _b.B835 2017
100	0		_aBuckland, Michael K., _d1941-
245	1	0	_aInformation and society / _cMichael Buckland.
260			_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bThe MIT Press, _cc2017.
300			_axiv, 217 p. : _bill.
490	1		_aThe MIT Press essential knowledge series
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 207-213) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- Document and evidence -- Individual and community -- Organizing : arrangement and description -- Naming -- Metadata -- Discovery and selection -- Evaluation of selection methods -- Summary and reflections -- Appendix A: anatomy of selection -- Appendix B: retrieval evaluation measures.
520			_a"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."--Page 4 of cover.
520			_a"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 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. Using information in its everyday, nonspecialized sense, Michael Buckland explores the influence of information on what we know, the role of communication and recorded information in our daily lives, and the difficulty (or ease) of finding information. He shows that all this involves human perception, social behavior, changing technologies, and issues of trust. Buckland argues that every society is an "information society"; a "non-information society" would be a contradiction in terms. But the shift from oral and gestural communication to documents, and the wider use of documents facilitated by new technologies, have made our society particularly information intensive. Buckland describes the rising flood of data, documents, and records, outlines the dramatic long-term growth of documents, and traces the rise of techniques to cope with them. He examines the physical manifestation of information as documents, the emergence of data sets, and how documents and data are discovered and used. He explores what individuals and societies do with information; offers a basic summary of how collected documents are arranged and described; considers the nature of naming; explains the uses of metadata; and evaluates selection methods, considering relevance, recall, and precision."--Publisher's description.
650		4	_aInformation science _xSociological aspects.
650		4	_aCommunication _xSocial aspects.
650		4	_aDocumentation _xSocial aspects.
650		4	_aInformation society.
830		0	_aMIT Press essential knowledge series.
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