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A fascinating and illuminating tribute to a great mind and a crucial period in the history of information science and technology.

An incredible story emerges as Buckland unearths forgotten documents and rogue citations to make the case that it was Goldberg, not Vannevar Bush, who created the first desktop search engine.

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An examination of information and information systems which is comparative rather than technical in approach. Using explicitly defined terms, Buckland interprets the nature of retrieval-based information systems such as museums, archives, libraries and online databases, and their social utility.

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A short, informal account of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data.