2006SummerQ3

Question #3
B. C. (Bertram) Brookes proclaimed the basis of librarianship to be bibliographic. Michael Gorman has insisted that bibliographic control is the heart of the information professions. Michael Buckland has asserted that access to information is the central and defining principle of library and information science.

In a sense, the core knowledge of the information fields can be understood as focusing on access to information. First, demonstrate that you understand this central feature of the field. Then, identify three major components, or facets, of the concept "access to information" and describe their significance to the provision of access to information.

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