Waldrop, M. M. (2001). Claude Shannon: reluctant father of the Digital Age [Electronic version]. Technology Review, 104(6), 64-71.
Reviews the life, career and scientific accomplishments of Claude Elwood Shannon. Says Shannon generated the entire field of information theory with a single paper, "A Mathematical Theory of Communication," which was published in 1948 and demonstrated how information could be quantified, defined and unified in binary form.
Kittleson, P., & Jones, S. (2002). Touring by design: using information architecture to create a virtual library tour[Electronic version]. Australian Academic & Research Libraries,33(1), 39-49.
Describes concepts and methods of information architecture in the development and construction of a virtual tour of an academic library and its resources. Illustrates the process of matching on-line learning outcomes with effective website design. Includes evaluation instrument.
Bainbridge, W.S. (2003). Privacy and property on the net: research questions: Scientists and the general public are being confronted by the changes in concepts of confidentiality and ownership caused by the rise of the Internet [Electronic version]. Science, 302(5651), 1686-1688.
Provides a sociologist's perspective on privacy and property rights on the Internet. Discusses theoretical issues such as file sharing, data mining, and data fusion. Argues for ethically informed research on these issues by social and information scientists and for its value in the design and implementation of information systems.
Radford, G. P. (1998). Flaubert, Foucault, and the Bibliotheque Fantastique: toward a postmodern epistemology for library science [Electronic version]. Library Trends, 46(4), 616-637.
Challenges the positivist concepts of knowledge, meaning, and communication adopted by library science to explain the ongoing transformation of the library experience caused by sophisticated information technologies. Offers an alternative, qualitative analysis of librarian-patron interaction and experience that is based on Michel Foucault's essay "La Bibliotheque Fantastique."
Berkowitz, B., & Hahn, R. W. (2003). Cybersecurity: Who's watching the store? Government is not doing all it could to research the problem or to exercise its proper regulatory role [Electronic version]. Issues in Science and Technology, 19(3), 55-63.
Reviews the history of cybersecurity. Assesses current public policy strategies relating to cybersecurity and finds them lacking. Provides recommendations for designing effective security measures through the application, by the U.S. government, of standards, regulations, liability, research, and leadership.
Delgado-P., G. (2002). Solidarity in cyberspace: Indigenous people online; have new electronic technologies fulfilled the promise they once seemed to hold for indigenous peoples? The answers are yes, and no [Electronic version]. NACLA Report on the Americas, 35(5), 49-53.
Outlines the challenges for indigenous peoples in utilizing information technology for ensuring cultural viability.
Thinking in policy terms [Electronic version]. (2005). Library Technology Reports, 41(2), 4-11.
Illustrates how technology, libraries, and policy are intertwined. Shows how librarians must take a proactive approach to policy issues through awareness of proposed legislation, regulations, treaties, contracts, and local policies. Recommends engaging in activism on policy issues.
Werner, R. (2004). Library connections open doors in Uruguay; the Bibliored network is making public libraries an essential factor in expanding democracy and equality in Montevideo [Electronic version]. American Libraries, 35(2), 46-49.
Examines the transformative effect of information technology on low-income populations in Uruguay when introduced through existing, small community libraries.
Zandonade, T. (2004). Social epistemology from Jesse Shera to Steve Fuller [Electronic version]. Library Trends, 52(4), 810-833.
Provides a history of social epistemology which focuses 'on the production, flow, integration, and consumption of communicated thought throughout the social fabric' and its application in librarianship. Examines in particular the life, work, and influence of Jesse Hauk Shera who formulated the discipline.
Jones, B. (2001). Narrative identity as a central theme in an ethics of librarianship [Electronic version]. The Australlian Library Journal, 50(2), 121-132.
Explores how Paul Ricouer's theory of narrative identity maybe used in helping to understand what constitutes an ethics of librarianship. Explains how our notions of ourselves as persons are influenced by the narratives we compose for ourselves as a result of the traditions of librarianship.