Summary
Yves-Francois Le Coadic: Information Science
Although the word library is mentioned very often in the text, the book is not only intended for librarians. It is intended for everyone who wants to enter the world of information science, as well as for those who are already involved in it, but have a lot of unanswered questions. For more demanding readers, at the end of the book, the author has given a list of the most important magazines, databases and websites dealing with information science.
Yves-Francois Le Coadic introduces us with this work to the future that is already coming. The theme of the book is the changed role of employees in the information sector: publishers, booksellers, librarians, documentarians, conservators, in a word, all those who deal with the storage and use of information. Their work is more and more related to information, and less and less to books, documents, the object itself. The author provides basic definitions of information, its epistemology, as well as terms closely related to the amount and flow of information. The abundance of graphic representations significantly contributes to a simpler and better understanding of the laws and formulas presented.
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