The Pollution of Information: Do Attempts to Systematize the Flow of Information Assist or Impede the Flow?.

McKenna, Frank E.

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ERIC Number: EJ080083

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Publication Date: 1973

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The Pollution of Information: Do Attempts to Systematize the Flow of Information Assist or Impede the Flow?

McKenna, Frank E.

Special Libraries, 64, 5/6, 245-250, May/Jun 73

Pollution of natural resources such as information is the result of inefficient use of those resources and misplacement of those resources after use. Information workers must make judgements or assign priorities to information to ensure its use to serve the cause of a humane rationality. (1 reference) (Author)

Descriptors: Evaluation, Humanization, Information Needs, Information Services, Information Systems, Information Utilization, Pollution

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