Buckland, Michael Keeble, 1941-

Information and society / Michael Buckland. - xiv, 217 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm - The MIT Press essential knowledge series . - The MIT Press essential knowledge series .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-213) and index.

Introduction -- Document and evidence -- Individual and community -- Organizing: arrangement and description -- Naming -- Metadata -- Discovery and selection -- Evaluation of selection methods -- Summary and conclusions.

"A concise, informal account of the ways in which information and society are related, and of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data."

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Information science--Sociological aspects.
Communication--Social aspects.
Documentation--Social aspects.
Information society.
Ciencias de la información --Aspectos sociológicos
Comunicación--Aspectos sociales
Documentación --Aspectos sociales
Sociedad de la información

HM 851 / B924i 2017

303.48