I am currently am working on a MSLIS degree from a large public university in the Midwest. One of my current courses in my first semester here is Libraries, Information, and Society.
In the past two weeks, I learned about Ranganathan's Five Laws of Library Science. On Sunday afternoon October 24, I got a moment of creativity and wrote my Five Laws for Information and Society. Here are the revised five-sentence version, per the request of the professor I had shared with last Sunday.
In the past two weeks, I learned about Ranganathan's Five Laws of Library Science. On Sunday afternoon October 24, I got a moment of creativity and wrote my Five Laws for Information and Society. Here are the revised five-sentence version, per the request of the professor I had shared with last Sunday.
Five Laws of Information in Society
Paul Wheelhouse
Abbreviated 5 Sentence
draft, October 29, 2015
All people and every individual needs information for life,
from information necessary for
locating, obtaining, and using such things as food, clothing, housing,
health/medical care, libraries, schools, laws, public safety and law
enforcement, government agencies, public welfare, political representatives,
banking, religious/spiritual houses, etc.
Every individual should have the freedom to access all the
information the need for life in the form they want whether printed on paper or
digital premised on the view that digital information does NOT have an
intrinsically greater value over paper/printed information just because its
digital.
All people have a right to basic and necessary information
(non-proprietary) for life and no
one should be denied access to it.
There are several kinds of information that should be freely
available to all citizens, rich, middle class, or poor, provided by government
agencies, public libraries, and non-profit organizations, such as laws, tax
forms and instructions, schools, family planning, health care, political
representatives, etc. but there are some areas of information that citizens may
expect information to Not be free, but a charge, such as higher education,
professional growth, personal growth, and business training and development.
Google is not God, no matter how big their data centers
become and no matter how amazing fast search results appear and its sheer quantity
of results or any other “wizardry” it will be able to code.
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