Alistair Black, Dave Muddiman

The Early Information Society

Information Management in Britain before the Computer

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an historical account which questions the novelty of the current information society. In support of this the authors examine the history and traditions in Britain of two separate but related information-rich occupations- information management and information science - by repositioning their origins before the age of the computer, and by identifying the forces driving their development from 1900-1960. It will be essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners in the library and information science field, and for sociologists and historians interested in the information society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781138276499
• ISBN-10: 1138276499
• Artikelnr.: 57058636

Autorenporträt

Alistair Black is Professor of Library and Information History and Dave Muddiman is Associate Principle Lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. Helen Plant is a Project Officer at the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE), Leicester, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Part I Overview: The information society before the
computer, Alistair Black and Dave Muddiman. Part II Infrastructure,
Networks and the State: Science, industry and the state: scientific and
technical information in early 20th-century Britain, Dave Muddiman; The
history and development of ASLIB, 1924-1960, Dave Muddiman. Part III The
Management of Information in the Early Information Economy: A pre-history
of the learning organisation: information and knowledge management before
the digital age, Alistair Black; Enterprise and intelligence: the early
company library in context, Alistair Black. Part IV The Information
Workforce: Education for the early information professions in Britain,
c1918-1961, Helen Plant; Women's employment in industrial libraries and
information bureaux in Britain c1918-1960, Helen Plant. Part V Conclusion:
Reconsidering the chronology of the information age, Alistair Black and
Dave Muddiman; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.