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Title: Introductory Concepts in Information Science by Melanie J. Norton ISBN: 1-57387-087-0 Publisher: Information Today, Inc. Pub. Date: May, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Information= The Force
Comment: This book is scarcely 120 pages long. Of the eight chapters, one chapter is reprinted material from two other authors, and another is co-authored. Yet this book costs forty dollars, and Norton makes her students buy it for her class. Nice way to sell copies; really nice. The editorial review is utterly right. This could be interesting material, and it is complex; but Norton's style is so dry and her writing so stodgy, dull, and even awkward, it virtually kills any interest one might have brought to the subject matter. Norton seems to believe in the mystical powers of information, and claims the study of information as the science to end all sciences. Ridiculous or not, she can't deliver her presentation in any kind of dynamic way. It's a pity. I would have hoped for a more interesting introduction to information science. Instead, I feel suspicious, disgusted, and cheated by having to have read this book. I believe my views probably represent an extreme. However, you're probably only reading this if you are being required to buy the book for a class, so my views are ultimately irrelevant, since they aren't really informing your purchasing decision. :-)
Rating: 5
Summary: A truly excellent guide and reference.
Comment: An excellent guide that provides basic introductions to web operations and organization, Melanie J. Norton's Introductory Concepts In Information Science uses recent research as well as scholarly and trade publications to provide a history of information science and the key concepts which have helped it advance. The depth of survey is startling for a slim-appearing title: it packs in a lot of basics and concepts.
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Title: Digital Convergence: How the Merging of Computers, Communications and Multimedia is Transforming Our Lives by Andy Covell, Fredrick Whyte ISBN: 1890154164 Publisher: Aegis Pub Group Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Being Digital by Nicholas Negroponte ISBN: 0679762906 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 03 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Research Process: Books & Beyond by Myrtle S. Bolner, Gayle A. Poirier ISBN: 0787290580 Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $43.95 |
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Title: Data Smog : Surviving the Information Glut Revised and Updated Edition by David Shenk ISBN: 0062515519 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: HTML Illustrated Complete, Second Edition by Elizabeth Eisner Reding, Sasha Vodnik ISBN: 0619018801 Publisher: Course Technology Pub. Date: 10 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $48.75 |
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