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.
Selected reviews
Robert V. Williams. Enhancing the cultural record: Recent trends in the
history of information science and technology. Libraries & the Cultural
Record vol 44, No 3 (2009): 326-342.
- History of Information Science.
Literature review through 1994.
Biographical
Lodewyk Bendikson;
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
- Conference 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 available through the Othmer Library.
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 available through the Othmer Library.
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
*** New *** L. Decatur.
50 Years of Information Technology.
Chronology, 1950s - 2000s.
- M. Buckland. On the cultural and intellectual context of European Documentation in the early
twentieth century. Chapter 2, pp 44-57, in: European Modernism and the Information
Society, ed. W. Boyd Rayward. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2007.
pdf.
- M. Buckland.
The Library Research Unit at the University of Lancaster, 1967-1972:
A Memoir. In: Access, Delivery, Performance: Festschrift . . . Peter Brophy,
ed. by J. R. Griffiths & J. Craven. London: Facet, 2009, pp 7-20.
-
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.
- 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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