Information Science/Librarianship Books (61 books)

Books on the topic of information in librarianship.

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1	Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell (Goodreads Author) 3.74 avg rating — 30,422 ratings score: 375, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson (Goodreads Author) 3.42 avg rating — 4,834 ratings score: 371, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick (Goodreads Author) 4.04 avg rating — 17,072 ratings score: 275, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron 3.87 avg rating — 62,487 ratings score: 199, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	What They Don't Teach You in Library School by Elisabeth Doucett 3.42 avg rating — 164 ratings score: 195, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library by Wayne A. Wiegand 3.76 avg rating — 312 ratings score: 193, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future by Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 1,460 ratings score: 190, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	The Googlization of Everything: And Why We Should Worry by Siva Vaidhyanathan 3.73 avg rating — 807 ratings score: 187, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Serving LGBTIQ Library and Archives Users: Essays on Outreach, Service, Collections and Access by Ellen Greenblatt (Editor) 3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings score: 182, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out by Katia Roberto (Editor) 3.54 avg rating — 156 ratings score: 181, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Public Library Services for the Poor: Doing All We Can by Leslie Edmonds Holt 3.47 avg rating — 36 ratings score: 180, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 7,979 ratings score: 178, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Case Studies in Library and Information Science Ethics by Elizabeth A. Buchanan 3.69 avg rating — 36 ratings score: 175, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	True Stories of Censorship Battles in America's Libraries by Valerie Nye (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 53 ratings score: 172, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room by David Weinberger (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 2,054 ratings score: 171, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Archivist by Martha Cooley (Goodreads Author) 3.43 avg rating — 2,550 ratings score: 170, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks by Gina Sheridan (Goodreads Author) 3.74 avg rating — 9,595 ratings score: 168, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It by Kelly Gallagher 4.29 avg rating — 6,137 ratings score: 164, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles 3.50 avg rating — 1,935 ratings score: 164, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian by Scott Douglas (Goodreads Author) 3.19 avg rating — 1,812 ratings score: 160, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	In the Stacks: Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians by Michael Cart (Editor) 3.19 avg rating — 355 ratings score: 158, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Five Laws of Library Science by S.R. Ranganathan 4.14 avg rating — 87 ratings score: 154, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Librarian Stereotype: Deconstructing Perceptions and Presentations of Information Work by Nicole Pagowsky (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.19 avg rating — 37 ratings score: 147, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern-day Iraq by Fernando Báez 4.03 avg rating — 780 ratings score: 144, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read by Stuart Kelly 3.47 avg rating — 851 ratings score: 141, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Handbook of Black Librarianship by E.J. Josey 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 141, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Librarianship: An Introduction (Facet Publications by G.G. Chowdhury 3.32 avg rating — 22 ratings score: 138, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Women of Color in Librarianship: An Oral History by Kathleen de la Peña McCook really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 134, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	The Spam Book: On Viruses, Porn, and Other Anomalies from the Dark Side of Digital Culture (The Hampton Press Communication Series: Communication Alternatives) by Jussi Parikka 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 129, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity by Siva Vaidhyanathan 3.74 avg rating — 183 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom by Rebecca MacKinnon 3.90 avg rating — 526 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences by Geoffrey C. Bowker 3.96 avg rating — 433 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive by Brian Christian (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 4,682 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership by Lewis Hyde (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 321 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper by Nicholson Baker (Goodreads Author) 3.42 avg rating — 986 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload by Cal Newport 3.88 avg rating — 6,366 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner 3.98 avg rating — 676 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything by Peter Morville (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 381 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky 3.83 avg rating — 5,769 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future – A Brilliant Essential Guide from 150 Influential Voices (Edge Question Series) by John Brockman 3.55 avg rating — 445 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom by Evgeny Morozov 3.68 avg rating — 1,760 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger 3.49 avg rating — 394 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You by Eli Pariser 3.79 avg rating — 5,485 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories by Frank Rose (Goodreads Author) 3.87 avg rating — 972 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Dust: The Archive and Cultural History by Carolyn Steedman 3.61 avg rating — 253 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George Dyson 3.60 avg rating — 4,706 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System by Siva Vaidhyanathan 3.50 avg rating — 175 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity by Lawrence Lessig 4.11 avg rating — 2,719 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Digital Information: Order or Anarchy? (Facet Publications by Hazel M. Woodward (Editor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 65, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval by G.G. Chowdhury 2.69 avg rating — 114 ratings score: 64, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	Informed Agitation: Library and Information Skills in Social Justice Movements and Beyond by Melissa Morrone (Editor) 4.13 avg rating — 31 ratings score: 63, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	The Discipline of Organizing by Robert J. Glushko (Editor) 3.30 avg rating — 152 ratings score: 61, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Career Profiles and Sex Discrimination in the Library Profession by Kathleen M. Heim 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 56, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library: How Postmodern Consumer Capitalism Threatens Democracy, Civil Education and the Public Good by Ed D'Angelo 2.78 avg rating — 45 ratings score: 55, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	"Raw Data" Is An Oxymoron by Lisa Gitelman (Editor) 3.88 avg rating — 68 ratings score: 53, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	The Library Beyond the Book by Jeffrey T. Schnapp 3.41 avg rating — 69 ratings score: 52, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	Digital Memory and the Archive (Volume 39) (Electronic Mediations) by Wolfgang Ernst 3.65 avg rating — 60 ratings score: 51, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	What is Media Archaeology? by Jussi Parikka 3.55 avg rating — 105 ratings score: 49, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	What Is Media Archaeology? by Jussi Parikka 3.55 avg rating — 105 ratings score: 48, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses by Jussi Parikka 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 47, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala by Kirsten Weld 4.18 avg rating — 219 ratings score: 46, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars