LEADER 02206oam 2200481 450 001 9910807140003321 005 20170523091616.0 010 $a1-283-40332-3 010 $a9786613403322 010 $a3-598-44008-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9783598440083 035 $a(OCoLC)183444795 035 $a(MiFhGG)GVRL5AOR 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000692141 100 $a20040720d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun|---uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aInformation science in theory and practice /$fBrian C. Vickery, Alina Vickery 205 $a3rd rev. & enlarged ed. 210 $aMu?nchen $cK.G. Saur$d2004 210 1$aMunchen, Germany :$cK.G. Saur,$d2004. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 400 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aGale eBooks 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-598-11658-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tFrontispiece -- $tChapter 1. Information science: emergence and scope -- $tChapter 2. A social approach to information -- $tChapter 3. Wider contexts of information transfer -- $tChapter 4. People and information -- $tChapter 5. Information retrieval -- $tChapter 6. Semantics and retrieval -- $tChapter 7. Intermediaries and interfaces -- $tChapter 8. Information systems -- $tChapter 9. The evaluation of systems -- $tChapter 10. The Internet and information science -- $tBackmatter 330 $aBrian 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 606 $aInformation science 615 0$aInformation science. 676 $a020 686 $aAN 92600$2rvk 700 $aVickery$b B. C$g(Brian Campbell)$07279 702 $aVickery$b A. 801 0$bMiFhGG 801 1$bMiFhGG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807140003321 996 $aInformation science in theory and practice$93951920 997 $aUNINA