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Bates, M.J.: Information science at the University of California at Berkeley in the 1960s : a memoir of student days (2004)
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Informationswissenschaft
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Bates, M.J.: ¬A tour of information science through the pages of JASIS (1999)
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- Beitrag eines Themenheftes: The 50th Anniversary of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science. Pt.1: The Journal, its society, and the future of print
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- Informationswissenschaft
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Bates, M.J.: ¬The invisible substrate of information science (1999)
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Bates, M.J.: Speculations on browsing, directed searching, and linking in relation to the Bradford distribution (2002)
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- Date
- 22. 2.2007 18:56:23
- Source
- Emerging frameworks and methods: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS4), Seattle, WA, July 21 - 25, 2002. Eds.: Fidel, R., H. Bruce, P. Ingwersen u. P. Vakkari
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Bates, M.J.: Rethinking subject cataloging in the online environment (1989)
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- Verbale Doksprachen im Online-Retrieval
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Bates, M.J.: Subject access in online catalogs: a design model (1986)
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- Verbale Doksprachen im Online-Retrieval
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Bates, M.J.: Defining the information disciplines in encyclopedia development (2007)
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Bates, M.J.: Fundamental forms of information (2006)
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- 22. 3.2009 18:15:22
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Bates, M.J.: How to use controlled vocabularies more effectively in online searching (1989)
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Bates, M.J.: How to use controlled vocabularies more effectively in online searching (1989)
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- Verbale Doksprachen im Online-Retrieval
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White, H.D.; Bates, M.J.; Wilson, P.: For information specialists : interpretations of reference and bibliographic work (1992)
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- Footnote
- Rez. in: Journal of documentation 50(1994) no.1, S.58-59. (G. Matthews); Journal of academic librarianship 20(1994) no.1, S.34 (G.D. Barber)
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Bates, M.J.: Information search tactics (1979)
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- Abstract
- As part of the study of human information search strategy, the concept of the search tactic, or move made to futher a search, is introduced. 29 search tactics are named, defined, and discussed in 4 categories: monitoring, file structure, search formulation, and term. Implications of the search tactics for research in search strategy are considered. The search tactics are inteded to be practically useful in information searching. This approach to searching is designed to be general, yet nontrivial; it is applicable to both bibliographic and reference searches and in both manual and on-line systems
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Bates, M.J.: Learning about the information seeking of interdisciplinary scholars and students (1996)
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- 14. 4.1997 20:22:55
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Bates, M.J.: ¬The nature of browsing (2019)
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- 25. 6.2019 11:13:29
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Mizrachi, D.; Bates, M.J.: Undergraduates' personal academic information management and the consideration of time and task-urgency (2013)
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- Abstract
- Young undergraduate college students are often described as "digital natives," presumed to prefer living and working in completely digital information environments. In reality, their world is part-paper/part-digital, in constant transition among successive forms of digital storage and communication devices. Studying for a degree is the daily work of these young people, and effective management of paper and digital academic materials and resources contributes crucially to their success in life. Students must also constantly manage their work against deadlines to meet their course and university requirements. This study, following the "Personal Information Management" (PIM) paradigm, examines student academic information management under these various constraints and pressures. A total of 41 18- to 22-year-old students were interviewed and observed regarding the content, structure, and uses of their immediate working environment within their dormitory rooms. Students exhibited remarkable creativity and variety in the mixture of automated and manual resources and devices used to support their academic work. The demands of a yearlong procession of assignments, papers, projects, and examinations increase the importance of time management activities and influence much of their behavior. Results provide insights on student use of various kinds of information technology and their overall planning and management of information associated with their studies.
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Bates, M.J.; Wilde, D.N.; Siegfried, S.: ¬An analysis of search terminology used by humanities scholars : the Getty online searching project report number 1 (1993)
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- Library quarterly. 63(1993) no.1, S.1-39
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Bates, M.J.: Indexing and access for digital libraries and the Internet : Human, database, and domain factors (1998)
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- Discussion in the research community and among the general public regarding content indexing (especially subject indexing) and access to digital resources, especially on the Internet, has underutilized research on a variety of factors that are important in the design of such access mechanisms. Some of these factors and issues are reviewed and implications drawn for information system design in the era of electronic access. Specifically the following are discussed: Human factors: Subject searching vs. indexing, multiple terms of access, flok classification, basic level terms, and folk access; Database factors: Bradford's law, vocabulary scalability, the Resnikoff-Dolby 30:1 Rule; Domain factors: Role of domain in indexing
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Bates, M.J.: ¬The selected works of Marcia J. Bates : Volume I: Information and the information professions. Volume II: Information searching theory and practice. Volume III: Information users and information system design (2016)
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Bates, M.J.: Concepts for the study of information embodiment (2018)
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- Beitrag in einem Themenheft: 'Information and the Body: Part 1'.
- Footnote
- Vgl.: DOI: 10.1353/lib.2018.0002. Vgl. auch den Kommentar in: Lueg, C.: To be or not to be (embodied): that is not the question. In: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 71(2020) no.1, S.114-117. (Opinion paper) Two articles in a recent special issue on Information and the Body published in the journal Library Trends stand out because of the way they are identifying, albeit indirectly, a formidable challenge to library information science (LIS). In her contribution, Bates warns that understanding information behavior demands recognizing and studying "any one important element of the ecology [in which humans are embedded]." Hartel, on the other hand, suggests that LIS would not lose much but would have lots to gain by focusing on core LIS themes instead of embodied information, since the latter may be unproductive, as LIS scholars are "latecomer[s] to a mature research domain." I would argue that LIS as a discipline cannot avoid dealing with those pesky mammals aka patrons or users; like the cognate discipline and "community of communities" human computer interaction (HCI), LIS needs the interdisciplinarity to succeed. LIS researchers are uniquely positioned to help bring together LIS's deep understanding of "information" and embodiment perspectives that may or may not have been developed in other disciplines. LIS researchers need to be more explicit about what their original contribution is, though, and what may have been appropriated from other disciplines.
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Bates, M.J.: Information and knowledge : an evolutionary framework for information science (2005)
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- Abstract
- Many definitions of information have been suggested throughout the history of information science. In this essay, the objective has been to provide a definition that is usable for the physical, biological and social meanings of the term, covering the various senses important to our field. Information has been defined as the pattern of organization of matter and energy. Information is everywhere except where there is total entropy. Living beings process, organize and ascribe meaning to information. Some pattern of organization that has been given meaning by a living being has been defined as information 2, while the above definition is information 1, when it is desirable to make the distinction. Knowledge has been defined as information given meaning and integrated with other contents of understanding. Meaning itself is rooted ultimately in biological survival. In the human being, extensive processing space in the brain has made possible the generation of extremely rich cultural and interpersonal meaning, which imbues human interactions. (In the short term, not all meaning that humans ascribe to information is the result of evolutionary processes. Our extensive brain processing space also enables us to hold beliefs for the short term that, over the long term, may actually be harmful to survival.) Data 1 has been defined as that portion of the entire information environment (including internal inputs) that is taken in, or processed, by an organism. Data 2 is that information that is selected or generated and used by human beings for research or other social purposes. This definition of information is not reductive--that is, it does not imply that information is all and only the most microscopic physical manifestation of matter and energy. Information principally exists for organisms at many emergent levels. A human being, for example, can see this account as tiny marks on a piece of paper, as letters of the alphabet, as words of the English language, as a sequence of ideas, as a genre of publication, as a philosophical position and so on. Thus, patterns of organization are not all equal in the life experience of animals. Some types of patterns are more important, some less so. Some parts of patterns are repetitive and can be compressed in mental storage. As mental storage space is generally limited and its maintenance costly to an animal, adaptive advantage accrues to the species that develops efficient storage. As a result, many species process elements of their environment in ways efficient and effective for their particular purposes; that is, as patterns of organization that are experienced as emergent wholes. We see a chair as a chair, not only as a pattern of light and dark. We see a string of actions by a salesperson as bait and switch, not just as a sequence of actions. We understand a series of statements as parts of a whole philosophical argument, not just as a series of sentences. The understanding of information embraced here recognizes and builds on the idea that these emergent wholes are efficient for storage and effective for the life purposes of human beings as successful animals (to date) on our planet. Thus, people experience their lives in terms of these emergent objects and relations, for the most part. Likewise, information is stored in retrieval systems in such a way that it can be represented to human beings in their preferred emergent forms, rather than in the pixels or bits in which the information is actually encoded within the information system.
