Assumptions of Naming in Information Storage and Retrieval: A Deconstruction
Hope A. Olson · Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l ACSI · 2013
Naming information is the special business of librarians and information professionals. Our theories, models and descriptions, applied in our role as intermediaries between users and information , are as presumptuous as scientists' construction and containment of nature. As we decide what descriptors and other access points to use we affect access to and the use of information.