My Library School Book List (Fall 2008)


A note: My formatting isn't precisely MLA, APA, or any other TLA standard, here. I'm not going for "formal bibliography" with this page. The point is just to provide an illustrative list for people who are considering library school and the opportunity to "read along" for anyone who is interested in reading what I'm reading this year. When we get into multiple semesters, I'll do some clever color-coding or something.

I had a great plan, to include papers as well as books, but I realized, as I cut and pasted from multiple syllabi, the list was going to get absurdly long. I'll be sure to provide a link to any paper I talk about in my blog.


Baker, Nicholson. Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. Vintage Books, ISBN: 0375726217, paperback.



 Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo. Linked: the New Science of Networks. Plume Publishers, Paperback, ISBN: 0452284392.

*Benkler, Yochai. The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. Yale University Press; 2006; ISBN: 0300110561.

Borgman, Christine. Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet. MIT Press, 2007. # ISBN-10: 0262026198; ISBN-13: 978-0262026192.



 Brown, John Seely, and Paul Daguid. The Social Life of Information. Harvard Business School Press, paperback, ISBN: 1578517087.



 Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press, 3rd edition, ISBN: 0226458083.



 Lesk, Michael. Understanding Digital Libraries. Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 2004. 2nd Edition, ISBN: 1-55860-924-5.

*Lessig, Lawrence. Code: Version 2.0. Basic Books, 2006. ISBN13: 978-0-465-03914-2.



 *Lessig, Lawrence. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. Penguin Press Publishers, ISBN: 0143034650.

Litman, Jessica. Digital Copyright. Prometheus Books, 2000, 2006. ISBN: 159102420X. Paperback.

Sunstein, Cass. Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge. Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN: 0195189280.

Taylor, Arlene G. (2004) The Organization of Information. 2nd edition. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited. ISBN: 1-56308-969-6.

Vaidhyanathan, Siva. The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System. Basic Books Publishers, paperback, ISBN: 0465089852.

Weinberger, David. (2007). Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. New York: Henry Holt and Co. ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-8043-8 ISBN-10: 0-8050-8043-0.

*Willinsky, John. The Access Principle: the Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship. MIT Press, 2005, ISBN: 0262232421.

Winchester, Simon. The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press, paperback, ISBN: 019517500X.

Wright, Alex. Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages. Joseph Henry Press. 2007. ISBN: 0309102383.

* The book is freely available on the Internet.