The early information society information management in Britain before the computer /

• Main Author: Black, Alistair.
• Other Authors: Muddiman, Dave., Plant, Helen.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
• Subjects: Information services > History > 20th century. > Great Britain; Information science > History > 20th century. > Great Britain; Knowledge management > Great Britain.; Information society > Great Britain.; Information science.; Information services.; Information society.; Knowledge management.; Documentation, Services de > Histoire > 20e siècle. > Grande-Bretagne; Sciences de l'information > Histoire > 20e siècle. > Grande-Bretagne; Gestion des connaissances > Grande-Bretagne.; Société informatisée > Grande-Bretagne.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General. > Library & Information Science; Electronic books.
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This book offers an historical account which questions the novelty of the current information society. In support of this the authors examine the history and traditions in Britain of two separate but related information-rich occupations- information management and information science - by reposition...

Table of Contents:

• Alistair Black and Dave Muddiman.
• Helen Plant
• Alistair Black
• Dave Muddiman
• Alistair Black and Dave Muddiman
• Science, industry, and the state : scientific and technical information in early-twentieth-century Britain ;
• The history and development of ASLIB, 1924-1960 /
• A pre-history of the learning organisation : information and knowledge management before the digital age ;
• Enterprise and intelligence : the early company library in context /
• Education for the early information professions in Britain, c. 1918-1961 ;
• Women's employment in industrial libraries and information bureaux in Britain c.1918-1960 /
• Reconsidering the chronology of the information age /
• The information society before the computer /