A note about the terminology
The word ‘Library’.
Throughout this book you will find the term Library. This is used in its widest sense as meaning a facility where information is connected with users. In application this facility might be a school library, public library, archive, or the information centre for a corporation, government or business.
I have deliberately used this term as an alternative to others because to me it implies a human face to information provision. One alternate term, information agency, for example, tends to carry with it constructions of facelessness and soullessness. It can easily become almost indistinguishable from any number of ‘agencies’ (government ones in the larger bureaucracies, for example) that can play ...
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