Cultural Synergy in Information Institutions

Cultural forces govern a synergistic relationship among information institutions that shapes their roles collectively and individually. Cultural synergy is the combination of perception- and behavior-shaping knowledge within, between, and among groups. Our hyperlinked era makes information-sharing a...

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Main Author: Smiraglia, Richard P. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1249-0
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Cultural Synergy and the Role of Information Institutions
  • Chapter 2. The Nature of Information
  • Chapter 3. What is (are) Information Studies?
  • Chapter 4. The Synergistic Information Professions: Applications of the Information Process
  • Chapter 5. Some History of Libraries, Library and Information Science, Information Technology
  • Chapter 6. Gatekeepers: Information Dissemination
  • Chapter 7. Knowledge Organization: Bibliography as Synergic Catalyst
  • Chapter 8. Into the Future Boldly: The Imperative for Cultural Synergy.