LIS Research Papers and Tools

 
    In my opinion, information must "exist" in some real sense, or people's claims to study it scientifically would be meaningless. The study of a specific subset of information - namely, recorded knowledge - in its generation, dissemination, categorization, organization, and societal use, is the special province of LIS. Librarians and other information professionals seek to understand how that process works, and how to help people get the best use out of it. By whatever term we choose to describe it, LIS can be seen as a set of theories, techniques, standards, and practices directed to the understanding of the process of knowledge transfer, and its facilitation and fostering through professional practice.

    A Personal View of LIS

    A Brief Discussion of the Nature of Information .

    Back Doors, False Drops, Invisible Ink

    E-mail for development.

    Librarians in Fiction.

    Newsgroup Headers Predict Relevance.

    New World Order and the Geopolitics of Information.

    Soft Systems Methodology in LIS Research

    SOS Calls, Breaking Stories, and Network Disinformation

    Dan Clinton's Hexadecimal Color Chart for HTML

    Frequently Asked Questions for LIS students.

    Quotes About Computing.

    Readings of Interest to LIS students

    The Nature of Information, a poem by Edward M. Houseman

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Last changed: 2009/03/24