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  1. Bruce, H.: ¬The user's view of the Internet (2002) 0.00
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    Footnote
    Chapter 2 (Technology and People) focuses an several theories of technological acceptance and diffusion. Unfortunately, Bruce's presentation is somewhat confusing as he moves from one theory to next, never quite connecting them into a logical sequence or coherent whole. Two theories are of particular interest to Bruce: the Theory of Diffusion of Innovations and the Theory of Planned Behavior. The Theory of Diffusion of Innovations is an "information-centric view of technology acceptance" in which technology adopters are placed in the information flows of society from which they learn about innovations and "drive innovation adoption decisions" (p. 20). The Theory of Planned Behavior maintains that the "performance of a behavior is a joint function of intentions and perceived behavioral control" (i.e., how muck control a person thinks they have) (pp. 22-23). Bruce combines these two theories to form the basis for the Technology Acceptance Model. This model posits that "an individual's acceptance of information technology is based an beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and behaviors" (p. 24). In all these theories and models echoes a recurring theme: "individual perceptions of the innovation or technology are critical" in terms of both its characteristics and its use (pp. 24-25). From these, in turn, Bruce derives a predictive theory of the role personal perceptions play in technology adoption: Personal Innovativeness of Information Technology Adoption (PIITA). Personal inventiveness is defined as "the willingness of an individual to try out any new information technology" (p. 26). In general, the PIITA theory predicts that information technology will be adopted by individuals that have a greater exposure to mass media, rely less an the evaluation of information technology by others, exhibit a greater ability to cope with uncertainty and take risks, and requires a less positive perception of an information technology prior to its adoption. Chapter 3 (A Focus an Usings) introduces the User-Centered Paradigm (UCP). The UCP is characteristic of the shift of emphasis from technology to users as the driving force behind technology and research agendas for Internet development [for a dissenting view, see Andrew Dillion's (2003) challenge to the utility of user-centerness for design guidance]. It entails the "broad acceptance of the user-oriented perspective across a range of disciplines and professional fields," such as business, education, cognitive engineering, and information science (p. 34).
  2. Davis, M.: ¬The universal computer : the road from Leibniz to Turing (2000) 0.00
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    Footnote
    Rez. in: JASIST 55(2004) no.1, S.89-90. (J. Warner): "This book is a review of the work of logicians, particularly mathematical logicians, who developed concepts crucial to modern computers. Leibniz, Boole, Frege, Cantor, Hilbert, Gödel, and Turing are covered, with some attention to their personal biographies. The prose style is lucid, with clear and potentially widely intelligible exposition of technical issues. The author, Martin Davis, has had a long and distinguished career, occupying a crucial locus between mathematical logic and engineering design and construction and accepting a responsibility to make the theory of computability accessible to non-technical readers. The clarity of presentation and themes developed are continuous with his previous publications, without repetition. The broad relevante of the work to information science is through the gestalt of the computer. More specifically relevant issues lie in the connections between mathematical and ordinary discourse concerns and in the intersection between logic and engineering. The idea of the computer as a universal machine, developed in mathematical logic in the 1930s and obscured in ordinary discourse by an emphasis an the stored-program concept as the revolutionary element, is discussed (pp. xi and 186). From the perspective of economics, the context of conceptualization (mathematical logic) is different from that of invention (wartime cryptography). Innovation and diffusion have brought the computer into further arenas: as Time (1999) noted: "every one who taps at a keyboard, opening a spreadsheet or a word-processing program, is working an an incarnation of a Turing machine" (p.192). The formal logic of the context of conceptualization may not be applicable to human and ordinary language concerns of the context of diffusion and more could have been made of this contrast. The received position, noted by Davis, has been that conceptualization and invention of the computer occurred largely separately, in mathematical logic and engineering. The position was questioned by Minsky, as long ago as 1967: "While it is often said that the 1936 paper [by Turingl did not really muck affect the practical development of the computer, 1 could not agree to this in advance of a careful study of the intellectual history of the matter." (Minsky, 1967, p. 104). Davis refers to the emerging evidente, whose release had been complicated and delayed by security considerations, indicating greater personal continuity and interaction, specifically between Turing and von Neumann, than had previously been allowed for (p. 192). A deeper cultural conflict between engineering and logic could also be detected, between a concern with robustness and developing and preserving robustness by incremental innovation and an interest in radical reconceptualization (curiously, Wittgenstein, who produced a robust account of formal logic, had trained as an engineer and designed a house). The image of the machine and its relation to mathematical reasoning is also considered and Poincare quoted: We might imagine a machine where we should put in axioms at one end and take out theorems at the other, like that legendary machine in Chicago where pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. It is no more necessary for the mathematician than it is for these machines to know what he is doing. (p.93) A stronger distinction between the process and product of mathematical reasoning, analogous to the distinction between the context of discovery and of justification in the philosophy of science and consistent with the Marxist view of the congealing of human labor in the product, might have reduced the need to identify the human process of mathematical reasoning with its mechanical analogue. A more radical move would to acknowledge both mathematics and technology as human constructions.
  3. Katz, W.A.: Introduction to reference work : Vol.1: Basic information sources; vol.2: Reference services and reference processes (1992) 0.00
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    Abstract
    Standardwerk mit Bezug zum anglo-amerikanischen Verständnis von 'Reference work', das zwar Vorbild für viele Betrachtungen in der deutschen Literatur und in deutschen Bibliotheken ist, das aber bis heute keine Entsprechung in der bibliothekarischen Praxis gefunden hat
  4. IFLA Cataloguing Principles : steps towards an International Cataloguing Code. Report from the 1st Meeting of Experts on an International Cataloguing Code, Frankfurt 2003 (2004) 0.00
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    Footnote
    Weitere Rez. in: ZfBB 52(2005) H.3/4, S.227-228 (K. Haller): " ... Im Mittelpunkt der Publikation steht das revidierte Statement of International Cataloguing Principles. Es wendet sich mit seinen Grundsätzen gleichermaßen an Bibliografien und Bibliothekskataloge sowie Datensammlungen in Archiven, Museen und dergleichen Einrichtungen. Terminologisch und inhaltlich geht das Statement von den Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) aus. Durch die Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records (FRANAR) werden die Normdateien und die Sacherschließung in das Statement eingebracht. Die FRBR sind ein theoretisches Modell, ein strategisches Dokument, in dem durch die Entitäten die logischen Zusammenhänge dargestellt und damit die notwendi ge Erschließungsqualität definiert wird. Es geht um klare Grundsätze für Wahl, Anzahl und Art der Suchbegriffe (access points) und deren Beziehungen. ... Insgesamt ist die Publikation sehr zu begrüßen und als Pflichtlektüre allen Verantwortlichen im Erschließungsbereich und dem in Ausbildung befindlichen Nachwuchs dringend zu empfehlen."

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