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In librarianship today, we encourage voices from our field to join conversations in other disciplines as well as in the broader culture. People who work in libraries and are sympathetic to, or directly involved in, social justice struggles have long embodied this idea, as they m…
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« Information is power. It drives commerce, protects nations, and forms the backbone of systems that range from health care to high finance. Yet despite the avalanche of data available in today's information age, neither institutions nor individuals get the information they trul…
Information : a brief modern history -- Information and the market economy -- Healthcare through an information lens -- Corporate transparency -- Something's missing -- Where does sustainability information come from? -- Finding things out : foraging for coherence in the informa…
"Information is power. It drives commerce, protects nations, and forms the backbone of systems that range from health care to high finance. Yet despite the avalanche of data available in today's information age, neither institutions nor individuals get the information they truly…
David Sarokin and Jay Schulkin explore information - not information technology, but information itself - as a central part of our lives and institutions. They show that providing better information and better access to it improves the quality of our decisions and makes for a mo…
"Information is power. It drives commerce, protects nations, and forms the backbone of systems that range from health care to high finance. Yet despite the avalanche of data available in today's information age, neither institutions nor individuals get the information they truly…
"Information is power. It drives commerce, protects nations, and forms the backbone of systems that range from health care to high finance. Yet despite the avalanche of data available in today's information age, neither institutions nor individuals get the information they truly…
Improving Product-Specific Information -- 5 Something Is Missing -- A Simple Example: BGH -- Tweaking the Market -- 6 Where Does Sustainability Information Come From? -- Sustainability Information: An Example -- Sustainability at Dupreshi -- What of the five stars? -- High-Quali…
Ultimately, better information allows society's systems to respond more effectively to our collective concerns about global sustainability, such as child labour, climate change, and chemical pollution. The authors examine these themes in depth, not only from the perspective of b…
"Information is power. It drives commerce, protects nations, and forms the backbone of systems that range from health care to high finance. Yet despite the avalanche of data available in today's information age, neither institutions nor individuals get the information they truly…
How better information and better access to it improves the quality of our decisions and makes for a more vibrant participatory society.
