@article{weissinger_information_2005,
	title = {Information as a value concept: reconciling theory and practice},
	volume = {8},
	issn = {1522-0222},
	abstract = {This article's central thesis is that the concept of information favored by materialist theories is not interchangeable with the concepts preferred by idealists and critical theorists. The materialist concept of information places too much emphasis on the factual nature of information, while demurring its evaluative component altogether. Idealists and critical theorists have been able to describe an evaluative concept of information; and it is this sense of information that threads throughout librarianship from its oral cultural beginnings to the present day.9 The idea that information has personal and social value resonates within librarianship and has been discussed in varying degrees by several important library thinkers. The discussion which follows is limited principally to selected works by librarian-theorists Michael K. Buckland, Jesse H. Shera, H. Curtis Wright, and Ronald E. Day. These theorists were selected because they have written about information as a value concept and represent materialist, idealist, and critical theory perspectives in librarianship.},
	number = {1},
	journal = {Library Philosophy and Practice},
	author = {Weissinger, Thomas},
	year = {2005},
	note = {bibtex*:WeissingerInformationvalueconcept2005},
	keywords = {conceito de informação, representação da informação, teoria idealista, teoria materialista, valor da informação, ⛔ No DOI found, 🔍No DOI found},
	pages = {1--13},
}

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