By:
National Science Foundation (U.S.). Division of Science Information
Call Number:
US GOV. DOC. NS 1.2:P 94/7
Format:
Book
Publication Date
1977
By:
Gleick, James
Call Number:
Z665 .G547 2011
Format:
Book
Summary:
From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood "talking drums" of Africa, James Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He also provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information, including Charles Babbage, Ada Byron, Samuel Morse, Alan Turing, and Claude Shannon.
Publication Date
2011
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By:
National Science Foundation (U.S.). Division of Information Science and Technology
Call Number:
MICROFICHE US GOV. DOC.
Format:
Book
Publication Date
1982
By:
Hardin, Nancy E.
Call Number:
MICROFICHE US GOV. DOC.
Format:
Book
Publication Date
1978
By:
Feather, John
Call Number:
Z1006 .I57 2003Q
Format:
Book
Publication Date
2003
By:
Feather, John
Call Number:
Z1006 .I57 1997Q
Format:
Book
Publication Date
1997
By:
American Society for Information Science and Technology
Call Number:
PERIODICAL
Format:
Continuing Resources
Publication Date
2001-2024 (ongoing) 2001-2013
By:
Blair, Ann, 1961-
Call Number:
Z665 .I57815 2021Q
Format:
Book
Summary:
"Information technology shapes nearly every part of modern life, and debates about information--its meaning, effects, and applications--are central to a range of fields, from economics, technology, and politics to library science, media studies, and cultural studies. This rich, unique resource traces the history of information with an approach designed to draw connections across fields and perspectives, and provide essential context for our current age of information. Clear, accessible, and authoritative, the book opens with a series of articles that provide a narrative history of information from premodern practices to twenty-first-century information culture. This section focuses on major developments in the creation, storage, search, exchange, management, and manipulation of information, as well as the many meanings and uses of information over time. Coverage spans Europe, North America, and many other places and periods, including the medieval Islamic world and early modern East Asia, as well as the emergence of global networks. A second, alphabetical section includes more than 100 concise articles that cover specific concepts (e.g., data, intellectual property, privacy); formats and genres (books, databases, maps, newspapers, scrolls, social media); people (archivists, diplomats and spies, readers, secretaries, teachers); practices (censorship, forecasting, learning, surveilling, translating); processes (digitization, quantification, storage and search); systems (bureaucracy, platforms, telecommunications); technologies (algorithms, cameras, computers), and much more. The book concludes with an informative glossary, defining terms from "analog/digital" to "World Wide Web.""--
Publication Date
2021
By:
American Society for Information Science
Call Number:
PERIODICAL
Format:
Continuing Resources
Publication Date
1974-2000
By:
American Society for Information Science
Call Number:
PERIODICAL
Format:
Continuing Resources
Publication Date
1970-2000
Format:
Continuing Resources
Publication Date
1966-2024 (ongoing)
By:
National Science Foundation (U.S.). Division of Information Science and Technology
Call Number:
MICROFICHE US GOV. DOC.
Format:
Book
Publication Date
1981
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