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Peer reviewedBenoit, Gerald – Library Quarterly, 2002
Considers the logico-analytic philosophy of library and information science (LIS); discusses Jurgen Habermas' theory of communicative action; examines how LIS, particularly research into librarian-patron interaction and information system design, favors an empiricist view of language and thus may be limiting its effectiveness; and suggests the…
Descriptors: Information Science, Information Systems, Interaction, Library Research
Peer reviewedSally, Dana M. – Library Quarterly, 2001
Within the U.S., information is a good in the "sphere" of basic welfare and security, and therefore (following Walzer's theory of justice), it should be distributed on the basis of the principle appropriate to the meaning of goods in that sphere-communal provision based on need and not on the basis of the distributive principle…
Descriptors: Costs, Document Delivery, Information Industry, Information Science
