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LIS PhD Idea: ‘In Search of Understanding’
This post originally appeared on 05/04/2017, on thelynxiblog.com *** The School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering at City, University of London is offering 5 doctoral scholarships for research students who wish to start in September 2017. The School is … Continue reading
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Tagged CityLIS, information, Library and Information Science, PhD, research, understanding
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CityLIS Reflections and Research: Why LIS doesn’t have a quick fix for the post-factual society … and why that’s OK by David Bawden
This CityLIS Reflections and Research post is by David Bawden and how Library and Information Science can help in a post-factual society. *** The irony is that by now it was supposed to be perfect. For most of my working … Continue reading
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#citylis Reflections and Research: David Bawden and Lyn Robinson on Understanding – “A different kind of knowing.”
This #citylis Reflections and Research post is by David Bawden and Lyn Robinson is a slightly updated and extended version of a paper they presented at the 9th Conceptions of Library and Information Science, CoLIS9, conference in Uppsala, Sweden, on … Continue reading
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#citylis Reflections and Research: David Bawden: The noblest pleasure: theories of understanding in the information sciences
This #citylis Reflections and Research post is by David Bawden and was originally published on The Occasional Informationist on March 21st 2016. — This is a modified and updated version of a chapter published in ‘Theory development in the information sciences‘ (edited by … Continue reading
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Tagged information, Knowledge, Library and Information Science, Library Science, LIS, understanding
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