Information and Society (Meet the Authors Series)

Michael Buckland

Mr. Buckland will be interviewed by Steven Hardin, ASIS&T Parliamentarian. Michael Buckland, the author of the book entitled, “Information and Society,” will discuss the multiple reasons why a concise, comprehensive, coherent, and readable introduction to (L)IS needed and why no suitable such book had been written. He will address salient points in the book: information understood as perceived evidence: the case of the passport; the so-called “information society” is misnomer:  the rise of the document society; always three aspects: technological, intellectual/cognitive, and social; arrangement and description go together; naming, metadata, and infrastructure; search, discovery, and selection. He will also discuss what’s next: re-discovery/re-invention of bibliography as umbrella concept; and sense-making: hermeneutics.