School of Information Management & Systems   Fall 1999.   Michael Buckland.
290-3 Concepts of Information Management. Readings
For timing of readings see Schedule.

Nature of Information Management
Machlup, Fritz & Una Mansfield, eds. The Study of Information: Interdisciplinary Voices. Wiley 1983. pp 389-397.
-- Reqd: Patrick Wilson. "Bibliographical R & D." pp 389-397. -- Recommended: Rest of section on Library and Information Science, pp: 343-405.
-- Recommended: Selected pages on Information Theory: Machlup 46-59; McKay 485-492; Miller 493-496; Machlup 658-661.

Rosario Gassol de Horowitz. 1984. Librarianship: A Third World Perspective. Greenwood. Note her formulation in three dimensions: Conceptual (Ideas, theories, models); Contextual (Cultural context, local situation); and Functional (Technique, management, cost-effectiveness), see x, 39-47, 114-118.

A. J. Meadows. Theory in Information Science. Journal of Information Science 16 (1990): 59-63.

Bibliography - the nature of bibliographic access.
Patrick Wilson. Two Kinds of Power: An Essay on Bibliographic Control. Univ of California Press, 1968.

Categorization
Jack Mills. A Modern Outline of Library Classification. London: Chapman & Hall, 1964. Out-of-date but useful.
Bohdan Wynar. Introduction to Cataloging and Classification. 1st edition, 1964 Chapter 10: Classification, pp. 192-222, a convenient historical introduction that is not in recent editions.
Mona L. Scott. "Tables." pp 29-32 In Dewey Decimal Classification, 21st Edition: A Study Manual and Number Building Guide. 1998.
Forey, Peter L. et al. Cladistics: A Practical Course in Systemics. Oxford UP, 1992. Chaps 1: "Cladistic Theory." and 10: "Formal Classification".

Information, Meaning, Document
M. Buckland: "Information as Thing". Journal of the American Society of Information Science 42:5 (June 1991): 351-360.
M. Buckland. What is a "document"? Journal of the American Society of Information Science 48, no. 9 (Sept 1997): 804-809.
Richard L. Derr. The concept of Information In Ordinary Discourse. Information Processing and Management 9 (1985): 489-499.
Gernot Wersig. Information Theory. In: International Encyclopedia of Information and Library Science ed by J. Feather & P. Sturges. 1997, pp 220-227.
Daniel Chandler. Semiotics for Beginners.
- "Introduction".
- "Signs".

Information Retrieval
M. Buckland & C. Plaunt. On the construction of selection systems. Library Hi Tech 48 (1994):15-28. A functional model of filtering and retrieval systems.

Information Society
Frank Webster. Theories of the Information Society. 1995. Chaps 2 & 10.

Knowledge
Mario Bunge. Scientific Research I: The Search for System. NY: Springer-Verlag, 1967. pp 1-6: #1.1. "Knowledge: Ordinary and Scientific."
Alisdair Kemp. The Nature of Knowledge: An Introduction for Librarians. London: Bingley, 1976. Chap 3: "The Nature of Knowledge."
Keith Lehrer. Theory of Knowledge. Boulder: Westview P. Chap 1: "The Analysis of Knowledge."
G. J. Mattey. 1996 Lecture Notes, Lehrer's Theory of Knowledge, Chapter 1 "The Analysis of Knowledge".
Nicholas Maxwell. From Knowledge to Wisdom. London: Blackwell, 1984, pp. 80, 82 & 83.
K. L. Ross. Foundationalism and Hermeneutics.
Andana E. Wood. Knowledge before Printing and After. Oxford UP, 1985. pp 183-186: "Culture, Knowledge and Tradition."

Relevance
Tefko Saracevic: "Relevance: A Review and a Framework" JASIS Nov-Dec 1975: 321-343.
Tefko Saracevic: "Relevance reconsidered '96" CoLIS2 (1996) 201-218.
Patrick Wilson: Situational Relevance. Information Processing and Management 9 (1973): 475-471.

Semantics, Semiotics
Daniel Chandler. Semiotics for Beginners.
- "Introduction".
- "Signs".
George Lakoff. Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things. U of Chicago P., 1987. pp 74-76: "Cluster models."