Michael Scott Buckland

Book Availability and the Library User

Historical Studies in Information Science (Asis Monograph Series)

All You Wanted to Know About Health Insurance

It is no secret that the American society is advanced in many ways. As a whole, we are a wealthy country. We are a democratic country. We are a free country. The citizens of American society have rights that citizens of many other countries have never known. Yet, despite all our wealth and all our r...

Information and Society (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)

We live in an information society, or so we are often told. But what does that mean? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers 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 ...

Library Services in Theory and Context

This creative, original interpretation of the nature and functioning of library services provides a coherent synthesis of the cognitive, economic, political and technical aspects of librarianship and relates them to social values and cultural contexts. In this revised and expanded second edition, Mi...

Redesigning Library Services: A Manifesto

This blueprint provides a new framework within which to attempt to understand and to plan library services in the future. Buckland's examination of informational technology is the basis of an analysis of the transition from the library of the past to the library of the future. He introduces the cons...

Information and Information Systems (New Directions in Information Management)

Michael Buckland offers an examination of information systems that is comparative rather than narrowly technical in approach. With careful attention to different meanings of information, Buckland examines the nature of retrieval-based information systems such as archives, databases, libraries, and m...

Emanuel Goldberg and His Knowledge Machine: Information, Invention, and Political Forces (New Directions in Information Management)

This book tells the story of Emanuel Goldberg, a chemist, inventor, and industrialist who contributed to almost every aspect of imaging technology in the first half of the 20th century. Despite his accomplishments, history has not been kind to Goldberg, a name all but erased from the annals of infor...

Michael Buckland

Michael Keeble Buckland (born 1941) is an emeritus professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information and co-director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative.

Emanuel Goldberg And His Knowledge Machine: Information, Invention, and Political Forces

Robert Gitler and the Japan Library School: An Autobiographical Narrative

Redesigning Library Services: A Manifesto

Studies in Multimedia: State-Of-The-Art Solutions in Multimedia and Hypertext Proceedings of the 1991 Mid-Year Meeting of the American Society for

Book Availability and the Library User

Book Availability and the Library User

Library Services in Theory and Context

Library Services in Theory and Context