School of
Information
Previously School of Library & Information Studies
Michael Buckland, Professor.
History of Information Management
Selected General Websites
- Robert V. Williams
History of Information
Science and Technology.
- Thomas Hapke
History of Scientific Information and Communication.
- ASIST SIG History and Foundations of Information Science
website.
- ALA
Library History
Round Table.
- South Hall: The School of Information
and its antecedents.
Biographical
Suzanne Briet;
Vannevar Bush;
J.
Periam Danton;
Robert Gitler;
Emanuel Goldberg;
Fredric J. Mosher;
Wilhelm Ostwald;
Paul Otlet;
Martin Schrettinger;
Raynard C. Swank;
Patrick Wilson.
Pioneers in North America.
Conferences
- PrConference on
European
Modernism and the Information Society: Informing
the Present, Understanding the past, Urbana-Champaign, May 2005.
Photos.
Publication of proceedings forthcoming.
-
The Architecture of Knowledge:
The Mundaneum and the European Antecedents of the World Wide Web. Colloquium
Mundaneum, Mons, Belgium, 24/25 May 2002.
- Conference on the History and Heritage of
Scientific and Technical Information Systems, Philadelphia, November
15-17, 2002. Proceedings.
Report in German.
- Conference on History and Heritage
of Science Information Systems, Pittsburgh, Oct. 23-25, 1998,
sponsored by the Chemical Heritage Foundation and ASIS. Proceedings.
Reports on the conference in
English
and in
German.
Proceedings available in print from
Information Today, Inc..
- West Coast History Workshop on ... Information Systems,
Berkeley, Nov 2001.
Program.
- History papers at past Annual Meetings of
the
American Society of Information Science.
Other
-
Other
-
Information schools: A Monk, Library Science,
and the Information Age. The rationale for evolving and modernizing
academic programs in library science seen in the context of German library
science: Martin Schrettinger, Adolf von Harnack, Fritz Milkau, and Humboldt
University.
Manuscript for Humboldt University Institute of Library Science
students' book project. July 24, 2004.
- C. Bourne & T. B. Hahn: A History of
Online Information Services, 1963-1976. MIT Pr. 2003.
Blurb.
- What
has Information Science contributed to the world. Discussion.
- Online
Before the Internet: Early Pioneers Tell Their Stories, Susanne Bjorner &
Stephanie C. Ardito.
- From Otlet to the Internet
via Hypertext. Chronology in French.
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.
Special Issue: Computer Applications in Libraries. Part 1: Vol 24, no 2
(April-June 2002):3-85. Part 2: Vol. 24, no 3 July- September 2002): 2-74.
- Library Education:
A Centenary and the
Future, (1987).
- Documentation, Information Science and Library
Science in the USA: A Re-interpretation.
Summary;
text.
-
Histories, heritages and the past:
The case of Emanuel Goldberg. Paper at the
Second
Conference on the History and Heritage of
Scientific and Technical Information Systems, Philadelphia, November 15-17, 2002.
- Ronald Day. The Modern Invention of
Information: Discourse, History, and Power.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001.
ISBN 0-8093-2390-7.
An article-length version can be found in: Ronald E. Day. "Totality and
Representation. Journal of the American Society for Information
Science and Technology vol 52, no 9 (June 2001):725-735.
[Offprint].
- Ronald Rousseau:
Time-line
for bibliometrics.
- History of hypertext.
- History of Information Management:
France.
- Landscape:
"Document" and "computational" traditions in Information Science.
-
Historical Studies in Information
Science, by
T. B. Hahn &
M. Buckland.
Contents.
-
History of Information Science.
Literature review through 1994.
- International Federation for
Information & Documentation, 1895-1995:
Achievements
and Publications.
- Translation of Briet's
What is
Documentation?.
- Robert Gitler
and the founding of the Japan Library School,
at Keio University, Tokyo, 1951.
- Information Processing & Management
History of Information Science issue.
- History of tools of access to knowledge: Articles & chronology.
Solaris No. 4, 1997. (In
French).
- History of Information Management:
Germany.
- Liberal arts and the development of schools
of LIS. Summary,
full text.
- Cultural and Intellectual Context of European Documentation
[ppt].
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