Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
Everything Is Miscellaneous The Power of the New Digital Disorder
This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
In This Book is Overdue , acclaimed author Marilyn Johnson celebrates libraries and librarians, and, as she did in her popular first book, The Dead Beat, discovers offbeat and eloquent characters in the quietest corners In defiance of doomsayers, Johnson finds librarians vital and necessary th
The Organization of Information (Library and Information Science Text Series)
The extensively revised and completely updated second edition of this popular textbook provides LIS practitioners and students with a vital guide to the organization of information After a broad overview of the concept and its role in human endeavors, Taylor proceeds to a detailed and insightful di
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling a pervasive new force in society that threatens to undermine democracy and widen inequality We live in the age of the algorithm Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives where we go to school, whether we get a car loan,
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
The post Ajaxian Web 2.0 world of wikis, folksonomies, and mashups makes well planned information architecture even essential How do you present large volumes of information to people who need to find what they re looking for quickly This classic primer shows information architects, designers
Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room
We used to know how to know We got our answers from books or experts We d nail down the facts and move on But in the Internet age, knowledge has moved onto networks There s knowledge than ever, of course, but it s different Topics have no boundaries, and nobody agrees on anything n nYet thi
Foundations of Library and Information Science
Foundations of Library and Information Science is the most current introductory text available, covering the practice of librarianship, the place of libraries in the broader information infrastructure, the development of information science, and Library and information science students and pro
The Social Life of Information
For years pundits have predicted that information technology will obliterate everything, from supermarkets to business organizations to social life itself, but beaten down by info glut, exasperated by computer crashes, and daunted by the dot com crash, individual users find it hard to get a fix on t
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
The classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables Theory and practice in the design of data graphics, 250 illustrations of the best and a few of the worst statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display data for precise, effective, quick analysis Design of the high resoluti
Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become
How do you find your way in an age of information overload How can you filter streams of complex information to pull out only what you want Why does it matter how information is structured when Google seems to magically bring up the right answer to your questions What does it mean to be findable
Glut: Mastering Information through the Ages
What do primordial bacteria, medieval alchemists, and the World Wide Web have to do with each other This fascinating exploration of how information systems emerge takes readers on a provocative journey through the history of the information age n nToday s information explosion may seem like an acu
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Is Google making us stupid When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time As we enjoy the Net s bounties, are we sacri
Introduction to Metadata
Praise for the First Edition An excellent starting point for information professionals to gain a basic understanding of fundamental concepts, then move ahead with a guided path for further research and study Art Documentation Metadata, literally data about data, provides a means of indexin
Reference and Information Services in the 21st Century : An Introduction
This innovative text features an all new approach that will change the way you think about reference service The only reference text to identify the top resources in major subject areas and genres, it shows students how to approach the reference query by matching specific types of questions to the
Metadata
Everything we need to know about metadata, the usually invisible infrastructure for information with which we interact every day When metadata became breaking news, appearing in stories about surveillance by the National Security Agency, many members of the public encountered this once obscure te
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
A sweeping examination of the current state of artificial intelligence and how it is remaking our world n nNo recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligence The award winning author Melanie Mitch
BiblioTech: Why Libraries Matter More Than Ever in the Age of Google
Libraries today are important than ever More than just book repositories, libraries can become bulwarks against some of the most crucial challenges of our age unequal access to education, jobs, and information In BiblioTech, educator and technology expert John Palfrey argues that anyone seek