Title: Toward a theory of librarianship; papers in honor of Jesse Hauk Shera.
Authors: Shera, Jesse Hauk, 1903-1982.; Rawski, Conrad H.; Rawski, Conrad H.,
Publisher: Scarecrow Press,
Year: 1973
Subjects: Library science
Contents: Foreword, by V.W. Clapp.--A bibliography of Jesse Hauk Shera, by G.M. Isard (p. [11]-40)--Introduction, by C.H. Rawski.--The pertinence of history: the research and writing of library history, by S. Ditzion. Growth patterns of public libraries, by D.M. Sinclair. Origins of the Mouselon of Alexandria, by H.J. de Viceschauwer and H.C. Wright--Basic issues: the interdisciplinarity of librarianship, by C.H. Rawski. The nature of information science, by B.C. Vickery. The contribution of classification to a theory of librarianship, by D.J. Foskett. Referential consulting networks, by M. Kochen. The world encyclopedia concept, by G. Harmon.--Information retrieval: On information retrieval systems, by W. Goffman. On a fallacy in the use of computing machines for automated dictionary retrieval, by A.D. Booth. Browsing and search theory, by P.M. Morse. The symmetries of ignorance, by R.A. Fairthorne. A thesaurus within a thesaurus: a study in ambiguity, by P.A. Richmond.--Catalog topics: When is a subject not a subject? By J. Metcalfe. From pig to man, by P.S. Dunkin. Book catalogs, by M.F. Tauber and H. Feinberg.--Contexts: Historiographs, librarianship, and the history of science, by E. Garfield. Informal communication in science: its advantages and its forma analogues, by H. Menzel. Writing systems: a datum in bibliographical description, by J. Mountford.--Forecast: Innovation in libraries: effect on function and organization, by R.S. Taylor. The library in the future of higher education, by N. Harlow.--Library education: The library as a complex organization: implications for library education, by P.B. Knapp. What and how of documentation training, by S.R. Ranganathan. On the professional image and the education of the librarian, by H. Kunze.