id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15423 Winter, Michael F. Brown, John Seely, and Paul Duguid. The Social Life of Information. Boston: Harvard Business School Pr., 2000. 320p. $25.95, alk. paper (ISBN 0-87584-762-5). LC 99-49068. 2001-01-01 4 .pdf application/pdf 2649 99 52 In looking at economic growth in three distinct periods beginning in 1948 and ending in about 1998, a nice, round fifty-year period, analysts have noted that investments in information technology and productivity appear to be related in­ versely and not directly, as we might ex­ pect. Similarly, the great investment in information technologies has not made libraries any less hierarchi­ cal or less centralized. cache/crl-15423.pdf txt/crl-15423.txt