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Information of the Image, Second Edition
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Allan D. Pratt
Book Code: AB3462
ISBN: 1-56750-346-2
ISBN-13: 978-1-56750-346-3
Ablex Publishing
Publication: 1/16/1998
List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £75.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Subjects: Reviews:
  • The author's analyses and extensions of communication, theory, his critque of information sciene, and his forays into new models of librarianship are perceptive, acute, and exiting....The book is a stimulating guide for students of LIS.
    —Library Review
Description: This book is an exploration of, not an explanation of, information (in its recorded form), and the keepers of those records, the librarians. It presents a model of the way in which recorded messages are generated by and used by people, and it discusses the role of the intermediary-the librarian-whose task is to bring together those messages with people who would make use of them in some way.
Table of Contents:
  • Introductuion
  • PART I: PRINCIPLES
  • The Image
  • The Model
  • The Purposes of Graphic Records
  • Information and Information Science
  • Librarianship
  • Library-Like-Systems
  • PART II: PRACTICALITIES
  • The Mission of the Public Library
  • Public Libraries: A Approach to Funding
  • New Technologies, New Responsibilities
  • Myths
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index.
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