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Information science in theory and practice / Brian C. Vickery, Alina Vickery.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vickery, B. C. (Brian Campbell)
- Vickery, A., author.
- Series:
- Gale eBooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 400 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 3rd rev. & enlarged ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Munchen, Germany : K.G. Saur, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Brian Vickery (emeritus, U. College London; Alina Vickery died in 2001) updates the student and professional text that presents and discusses a scientific understanding of the processes of information transfer. The transfer, he says, is a human, social activity, the transfer of meaning from one
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Frontispiece
- Chapter 1. Information science: emergence and scope
- Chapter 2. A social approach to information
- Chapter 3. Wider contexts of information transfer
- Chapter 4. People and information
- Chapter 5. Information retrieval
- Chapter 6. Semantics and retrieval
- Chapter 7. Intermediaries and interfaces
- Chapter 8. Information systems
- Chapter 9. The evaluation of systems
- Chapter 10. The Internet and information science
- Backmatter
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786613403322
- 9781283403320
- 1283403323
- 9783598440083
- 3598440081
- OCLC:
- 183444795
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