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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807140003321

Autore

Vickery B. C (Brian Campbell)

Titolo

Information science in theory and practice / / Brian C. Vickery, Alina Vickery

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mùˆnchen, : K.G. Saur, 2004

Munchen, Germany : , : K.G. Saur, , 2004

ISBN

1-283-40332-3

9786613403322

3-598-44008-1

Edizione

[3rd rev. & enlarged ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 400 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Gale eBooks

Classificazione

AN 92600

Disciplina

020

Soggetti

Information science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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