Foundations of Library and Information Science

Posted on 16 February 2017 by Richard E. Rubin

Foundations of Library and Information Science is the most current introductory text available, covering the practice of librarianship, the place of libraries in the broader information infrastructure, the development of information science, and Library and information science students and professionals will find the background and concepts they need to meet today s and tomorrow s challenges TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 The Information Infrastructure Libraries in Context 2 Information Science A Service Perspective 3 Redefining the Library The Impacts and Implications of Technological Change 4 Information Policy Stakeholders and Agendas 5 Information Policy as Library Policy Intellectual Freedom 6 Information Organization Issues and Techniques 7 From Past to Present The Library s Mission and Its Values 8 Ethics and Standards Professional Practices in Library and Information Science 9 The Library as Institution An Organizational View, and 10 Librarianship An Evolving Profession. 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Rubin For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr DON T LAUGH AT ME I had to read all 600 some odd freakin pages of this thing, so heck yeah, I m putting it on my reading challenge I digress I hate textbooks who doesn t , but this was a shockingly easy and in...i just realized i dont need this book any i have read all the chapters i have been assigned, and to the book i say good riddance its a textbook, so i wasnt expecting it to be the best book i ever read or anything, but now it is all behind me its not bad, just unthrilling i am going to wi...This book was terrible It sucked Or at least the ten pages I read of it before I decided there was no reason for me to read the book and that I d do just as fine in the class by not reading it I was right, since I got an A plus in the class.Useful if the subject interests you it will give you foundations and whatnot , but wow only three years old and it s hilariously outdated.This book has such potential It is written in readable, concise, and lucid prose It presents some genuinely fascinating material, such as the history of the library profession, statistics on the public s media consumption habits, and an analysis of the ethical issues that face librarians The book s Achilles Heel is the fact that it is woefully outdated Despite apparently having been revised for its 2010 3rd edition, most of the statist...This was a good textbook for my course of the same name as the book title The content was adequate except in one area see below and the bibliography for each chapter is very nice to have I ll probably keep this book even though my course is over The only content weakness was in the area of technology Certainly, it is nearly impossible for any printed book to be current on technology issues I wouldn t expect it to be However, this book was revised in 2010 but many technology statistics This was a good textbook for my course of the same name as the book title The content was adequate except in one area see below and the bibliography for each chapter is very nice to have I ll probably keep this book even ...I ve been working my way through this book all semester it was assigned and it s been a trek It s a SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOW read, with some very dated data, such as 1990 survey information about American s use of public libraries Sometimes, this frustrates me because Pew data would be muchaccurate Rubin makes good use of tables when appropriate.Most disappointing is that the most interesting information is contained in the first chapter, so you re lulled i...I m reading this book throughout this whole semester at school for my first semester towards my MLIS.It s okay A lot of it is really dry and boring to read, but I guess it has mostly relevant information in it.Un libro de texto sobre la disciplina que se conoce actualmente como Informaci n y Documentaci n, que cubre lo que anteriormente se llamaba Biblioteconom a y Documentaci n y otras disciplinas como el Comportamiento Informacional, la Gesti n del Conocimiento, la Interacci n Humano Ordenador, etc Es m s es un libro de texto tan b sico que se usa en muchos cursos universitarios en Estados Unidos y el alumnado echa pestes porque es rido.Ahora echo yo pestes de ese alumnado no me ha parecido rid Un libro de texto sobre la disciplina que se conoce actualmente como Informaci n y Documentaci n, que cubre lo que anteriormente se llamaba Biblioteconom a y Documentaci n y otras disciplinas como el Comportamiento Informacional, la Gesti n del Conocimiento, la Interacci n Humano Ordenador, etc Es m s es un libro de texto tan b sico que se usa en muchos cursos universitarios en Estados Unidos y el alumnado echa pestes porque es rido.Ahora echo yo pestes de ese alumnado no me ha parecido rido, sino muy interesante Entiendo que las partes que hablan de normas legales sean m s planas que las que hablan de las ltimas tendencias digitales o las disciplinas m s punteras, pero abarca tal heterodoxia de contenidos en su interior que decir que es aburrido es como decir que no te gusta leer.En su contra es un libro de texto en formato f si...Reviewing a textbook..aah the joy..Spending eighty five dollars for a six week summer session was truly heartbreaking..LOL I love book buying as much as the next girl and had to justify this one internally as that pricetag was killer..but truly honestly I can say that I used this book in every paper and we were assigned every chapter so I got to know good ole Rubin as my professor calls him very well and despite disagreement with my ...

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16 February 2017

Richard E. Rubin