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Acquisitions and Collection Development in the Humanities
Acquisitions and Collection Development in the Humanities is a one-of-a-kind guide on the procedures, approaches, and principles needed to make sound decisions in acquiring materials in various areas of the humanities. It gives you an inside look at managerial concerns in documentary delivery, changing budgetary needs, and fluctuations in journal prices and helps you address many of the important questions in acquisitions and collection development within both traditional and technological environments. As contributing author Dennis Dillon puts it, the ultimate goal of humanities librarians “is not to acquire information bytes and bits, but to promote integrity: integrity of texts, integri...
Information and the Information Professions
Information is the focus of numerous disciplines and professions--information science, knowledge management, social studies of information, digital humanities, biomedical informatics, library science, archival science, information systems, and many more. In eighteen papers, Professor Marcia Bates of UCLA tackles many key questions in these fields.
Selected Works of Marcia J. Bates
""Information" is a word that is much used and discussed, but with little agreement on its meaning. Yet it forms the professional focus and intellectual content of numerous disciplines and professions-information science, knowledge management, social studies of information, digital humanities, biomedical informatics, library science, records management, information systems, and dozens more. In this collection of eighteen professional papers and other texts by Marcia Bates, this pivotal concept is addressed in depth, and its relation to the information professions developed and discussed. Several professional and disciplinary issues are considered, including definitions of the fields, research paradigms and methodologies, the role of the doctorate in a profession, and the major research content areas of the several fields, with special attention to information science. Finally, the distinctive experience of being a woman graduate student and professor, when that was still rare in American universities, is described"--
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
"Shows how to use both aesthetics and mechanics to create distinctive, cohesive web sites that work."--Cover.
Understanding Context
To make sense of the world, we’re always trying to place things in context, whether our environment is physical, cultural, or something else altogether. Now that we live among digital, always-networked products, apps, and places, context is more complicated than ever—starting with "where" and "who" we are. This practical, insightful book provides a powerful toolset to help information architects, UX professionals, and web and app designers understand and solve the many challenges of contextual ambiguity in the products and services they create. You’ll discover not only how to design for a given context, but also how design participates in making context. Learn how people perceive context when touching and navigating digital environments See how labels, relationships, and rules work as building blocks for context Find out how to make better sense of cross-channel, multi-device products or services Discover how language creates infrastructure in organizations, software, and the Internet of Things Learn models for figuring out the contextual angles of any user experience
Human Information Interaction
A fresh research approach that bridges the study of human information interaction and the design of information systems. Human information interaction (HII) is an emerging area of study that investigates how people interact with information; its subfield human information behavior (HIB) is a flourishing, active discipline. Yet despite their obvious relevance to the design of information systems, these research areas have had almost no impact on systems design. One issue may be the contextual complexity of human interaction with information; another may be the difficulty in translating real-life and unstructured HII complexity into formal, linear structures necessary for systems design. In th...
Subject Access to Information
Drawing on the research of experts from the fields of computing and library science, this ground-breaking work will show you how to combine two very different approaches to classification to create more effective, user-friendly information-retrieval systems. A much-needed analysis of the intersection of information organization and technology, this interdisciplinary work encompasses both current and potential methods of organizing information by subject. It examines traditional approaches as they are used in the online environment and explores computer science approaches, such as ontologies and automated tools for subject information organization. Entries review the advantages and disadvanta...
Multispecies Information Science
Multispecies Information Science offers a comprehensive overview of this subfield, shifting the focus beyond humans to explore the rich and complex realms of information and knowledge shared with animals, plants, microbes, technologies, and landscapes. Bridging theory and practice, this volume traces the evolution of multispecies movement in information science, from Suzanne Briet’s provocative question 'Is an antelope a document?' to inclusive approaches informed by posthumanism, queer studies, disability studies, and postcolonialism. Penned by information scientists from around the world, the chapters span topics from the foundations of information to its pedagogy, design, technology, an...
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Information Searching Theory and Practice
Searching for information--and succeeding in finding it--is a more interesting and complex process than is usually recognized. Even the most sophisticated automated retrieval systems often fail to incorporate all that we know about human searching behavior. These fifteen papers by Professor Marcia Bates of UCLA address these topics.
