LIS Texts and Readings on the Web

This page is maintained by Dave Dubin. Opinions expressed in these readings are those of the authors. But the issues they raise are important, whether or not you agree with the positions taken.

Updated on Thu Sep 2 14:31:07 1999

[Bush, 1945]

V. Bush. As we may think. Atlantic Monthly, 176(1):101-108, July 1945.

This article is generally acknowledged to be the first proposal for the design of a hypertext system. The author was Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development during the Second World War.

[Coombs et al., 1987]

J. H. Coombs, A. H. Renear, and S. J. DeRose. Markup systems and the future of scholarly text processing. Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, 30(11):933-947, 1987.

An introduction to the key concepts of structural and declarative markup.

[Libicki, 1995]

M. Libicki. Standards: The Rough Road to the Common Byte. Center for Advanced Concepts and Technology, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, Washington, DC, 1995.

This monograph on information technology standards was later expanded by the author into a larger book. This is a good introduction and overview, though.

[Moglen, 1999]

E. Moglen. Anarchism triumphant: Free software and the death of copyright. First Monday, 4(8), August 1999.

"The spread of the Linux operating system kernel has directed attention at the free software movement. This paper shows why free software, far from being a marginal participant in the commercial software market, is the vital first step in the withering away of the intellectual property system."

[van Rijsbergen, 1979]

C. J. van Rijsbergen. Information Retrieval. Butterworths, London, 1979.

Although this book is over twenty years old, the central issues and models are as relevant as ever. Contrast the perspective with Korfhage's text that we use in LIS329.