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Benoît, Gerald – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2015
Visual literacy discussions and guidelines in LIS practice tend to be principle-driven concepts but are limited to an LIS discourse. In a casual tone, this paper reviews other expressions of what it means to be "informed" through visual means by using examples from literature, philosophy, and how end-users may think about visual…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Communication (Thought Transfer), Library Science, Information Science
Nitecki, Joseph Z. – 1993
This monograph was written to answer questions about the essence of librarianship, the meaning of information, and the principles behind a desire for information transfer, preservation of older records, or creation of new ideas. The work is organized into three parts. Part I is titled "In Search of a Discipline: Toward a Science of Library…
Descriptors: History, Information Science, Library Science, Models
Nitecki, Joseph Z. – 1997
This work supplements a previous work, "Philosophical Aspects of Library Information Science in Retrospect." It explores Library Information Science, which deals with the facilitation of recorded knowledge, the metalibrarianship encompassing the theoretical aspects of a broad range of recorded communications, and the philosophies…
Descriptors: Citations (References), Information Science, Keywords, Librarians
Nitecki, Joseph Z. – 1995
This study is a sequel to "Metalibrarianship." The previous work formulated a specific model for the philosophical interpretation of librarianship, and the present essay provides a wide-ranging reference to different views on the philosophy of librarianship. The review of philosophical viewpoints about library information science (LIS)…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Criticism, Essays, Higher Education
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Zwadlo, Jim – Library Quarterly, 1997
Argues that librarians and information scientists do not need a philosophy. Instead of a single philosophy of library and information science, they need a way to manage the many contradictory ideas in order to be more effective and more helpful to patrons. (AEF)
Descriptors: Information Management, Information Science, Information Scientists, Librarians
Bergen, Dan – 1984
This paper suggests that library and information systems provide access to claims to knowledge rather than to knowledge or information and that such claims to knowledge are in fact claims to truth. The stated purpose of the paper is to explain why the library and information community should adhere to at least soft, if not hard, skepticism with…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Epistemology, Information Retrieval, Information Science
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Wright, H. Curtis – Library Trends, 1986
Argues that librarianship, which is intimately involved with the communication of knowledge, is thereby deeply involved with the mind-body problem of philosophy, and that this relationship constitutes the major philosophical issue of the library profession in this century. Psychophysical interactionism is discussed in the context of philosophy of…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Principles
Blazek, Ron; Aversa, Elizabeth – 2000
This book provides a guide to humanities information sources for teachers and students in schools of library and information science, reference librarians, collection development officers in libraries, humanities scholars, and others who have information needs in the broad discipline. This fifth edition represents a more comprehensive and updated…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Annotated Bibliographies, Fine Arts, Humanities
Nitecki, Joseph Z. – 1996
This document is based on transcripts of recorded informal interviews with: (1) selected senior professors in the library schools at Warsaw, Krakow, and Wroclaw (Poland); (2) the director and a member of the Books and Readers Institute of the National Polish Libraries; and (3) a group of Polish librarians and students in the field. The report…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries, Government Role