Title
Professor Emeritus

Department
School of Information


Faculty URL
https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/people/michael-buckland

Email
buckland@ischool.berkeley.edu

Phone
(510) 642-1464

Fax
(510) 642-5814


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Research Expertise and Interest
information management, information retrieval, metadata, library services, history and theory of information science

Research Description
Michael Buckland's professional experience as a librarian and his work on the design of information services, especially bibliography, the design of library services, and support for online discovery, are reflected three books:?Library Services in Theory and Context, 2nd ed., (Pergamon, 1988),?Information and Information Systems?(Praeger, 1991), and?Redesigning Library Services?(ALA, 1992). He has also written extensively on the history of information services, including a biography of the designer of the first electronic search engine,?Emanuel Goldberg and his Knowledge Machine?(Libraries Unlimited, 2006). A new book,?Information and Society?(MIT Press, March 2017), provides a very concise introduction to a complex area.