id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15532 Welburn, William Day, Ronald E. The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois Univ. Pr., 2001. 139p. $35 alk. paper (ISBN 0809323907). LC 00-047033. 2002-05-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1909 163 45 Although “information” receives wide- spread usage among librarians, the word itself has received modest attention in the historical and cultural contexts of library and information science. In Weaver and Wiener, one finds a link between commu- nication and scientific information in their articulation of a scientific theory of com- 292 College & Research Libraries May 2002 munication, a link that is essential to the development of a post-World War Two global exchange of ideas through commu- nication networks. cache/crl-15532.pdf txt/crl-15532.txt