id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 8924 Tighe, Ruth L. Guest Editorial: Hoist by Their Own Petard 1974-03-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 439 27 51 What's more, it was fascinating as well, for it was one of the loveliest examples of "communications dysfunction" I've ever seen. Librarians-information scientists-have always been concerned with the transfer of information. Whether one interprets information to be the book, and discusses its transfer in terms of acquisitions, circulation, and interlibrary loan, or one interprets information to be datum, and discusses transfer in terms of is the area of concern of the information profession. used to relay the message, the unit which is basic to the process of information transfer, i.e., the word, is a fractious thing. Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association, a select group of Information specialists-listening without hearing, reading without comprehending, talking without communicating. "Network" concerns got defined in terms of ( 3) (operating foundation) and the jargon of the technical sector ( operations) were interpreted as being synonymous. specialists who cannot communicate.-Ruth L. Tighe, New England Library Information Network ./cache/8924.pdf ./txt/8924.txt