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1.
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
by:
Jen Campbell
3.74 avg rating β 30,076 ratings
2.
This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
by:
Marilyn Johnson
3.42 avg rating β 4,822 ratings
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
by:
James Gleick
4.04 avg rating β 16,839 ratings
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Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
by:
Vicki Myron
3.87 avg rating β 62,009 ratings
5.
What They Don't Teach You in Library School
by:
Elisabeth Doucett
3.41 avg rating β 163 ratings
6.
Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library
by:
Wayne A. Wiegand
3.76 avg rating β 307 ratings
7.
Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future
by:
Cory Doctorow
3.79 avg rating β 1,461 ratings
8.
The Googlization of Everything: And Why We Should Worry
by:
Siva Vaidhyanathan
3.73 avg rating β 806 ratings
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Serving LGBTIQ Library and Archives Users: Essays on Outreach, Service, Collections and Access
by:
Ellen Greenblatt
3.91 avg rating β 22 ratings
10.
Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out
by:
Katia Roberto
3.55 avg rating β 154 ratings
11.
Public Library Services for the Poor: Doing All We Can
by:
Leslie Edmonds Holt
3.47 avg rating β 36 ratings
12.
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
by:
Tim Wu
3.89 avg rating β 7,934 ratings
13.
Case Studies in Library and Information Science Ethics
by:
Elizabeth A. Buchanan
3.69 avg rating β 36 ratings
14.
True Stories of Censorship Battles in America's Libraries
by:
Valerie Nye
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 54 ratings
15.
Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room
by:
David Weinberger
3.80 avg rating β 2,050 ratings
16.
The Archivist
by:
Martha Cooley
3.43 avg rating β 2,523 ratings
17.
I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks
by:
Gina Sheridan
3.73 avg rating β 9,429 ratings
18.
Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It
by:
Kelly Gallagher
4.29 avg rating β 6,103 ratings
18.
Library: An Unquiet History
by:
Matthew Battles
3.50 avg rating β 1,923 ratings
20.
Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian
by:
Scott Douglas
3.19 avg rating β 1,812 ratings
21.
In the Stacks: Short Stories about Libraries and Librarians
by:
Michael Cart
3.19 avg rating β 355 ratings
22.
Five Laws of Library Science
by:
S.R. Ranganathan
4.14 avg rating β 87 ratings
23.
The Librarian Stereotype: Deconstructing Perceptions and Presentations of Information Work
by:
Nicole Pagowsky
4.19 avg rating β 37 ratings
24.
A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern-day Iraq
by:
Fernando BΓ‘ez
4.04 avg rating β 765 ratings
25.
The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read
by:
Stuart Kelly
3.47 avg rating β 853 ratings
25.
Handbook of Black Librarianship
by:
E.J. Josey
4.60 avg rating β 5 ratings
27.
Librarianship: An Introduction (Facet Publications
by:
G.G. Chowdhury
3.32 avg rating β 22 ratings
28.
Women of Color in Librarianship: An Oral History
by:
Kathleen de la PeΓ±a McCook
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
29.
The Spam Book: On Viruses, Porn, and Other Anomalies from the Dark Side of Digital Culture (The Hampton Press Communication Series: Communication Alternatives)
by:
Jussi Parikka
3.80 avg rating β 10 ratings
30.
Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity
by:
Siva Vaidhyanathan
3.74 avg rating β 182 ratings
31.
Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom
by:
Rebecca MacKinnon
3.90 avg rating β 528 ratings
32.
Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences
by:
Geoffrey C. Bowker
3.97 avg rating β 421 ratings
33.
The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
by:
Brian Christian
3.94 avg rating β 4,652 ratings
34.
Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership
by:
Lewis Hyde
3.91 avg rating β 319 ratings
35.
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
by:
Nicholson Baker
3.42 avg rating β 980 ratings
35.
A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
by:
Cal Newport
3.88 avg rating β 6,186 ratings
37.
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
by:
Fred Turner
3.98 avg rating β 656 ratings
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Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything
by:
Peter Morville
3.80 avg rating β 379 ratings
39.
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
by:
Clay Shirky
3.83 avg rating β 5,774 ratings
39.
Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?: The Net's Impact on Our Minds and Future (Edge Question Series)
by:
John Brockman
3.55 avg rating β 444 ratings
41.
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
by:
Evgeny Morozov
3.68 avg rating β 1,755 ratings
42.
Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
by:
Viktor Mayer-SchΓΆnberger
3.49 avg rating β 393 ratings
43.
The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You
by:
Eli Pariser
3.79 avg rating β 5,467 ratings
44.
The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories
by:
Frank Rose
3.87 avg rating β 971 ratings
45.
Dust: The Archive and Cultural History
by:
Carolyn Steedman
3.61 avg rating β 241 ratings
46.
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
by:
George Dyson
3.60 avg rating β 4,673 ratings
47.
The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System
by:
Siva Vaidhyanathan
3.51 avg rating β 176 ratings
48.
Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
by:
Lawrence Lessig
4.11 avg rating β 2,706 ratings
49.
Digital Information: Order or Anarchy? (Facet Publications
by:
Hazel M. Woodward
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
50.
Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval
by:
G.G. Chowdhury
2.69 avg rating β 114 ratings
51.
Informed Agitation: Library and Information Skills in Social Justice Movements and Beyond
by:
Melissa Morrone
4.12 avg rating β 32 ratings
52.
The Discipline of Organizing
by:
Robert J. Glushko
3.30 avg rating β 152 ratings
53.
Career Profiles and Sex Discrimination in the Library Profession
by:
Kathleen M. Heim
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
54.
Barbarians at the Gates of the Public Library: How Postmodern Consumer Capitalism Threatens Democracy, Civil Education and the Public Good
by:
Ed D'Angelo
2.78 avg rating β 45 ratings
55.
"Raw Data" Is An Oxymoron
by:
Lisa Gitelman
3.94 avg rating β 64 ratings
56.
The Library Beyond the Book
by:
Jeffrey T. Schnapp
3.41 avg rating β 68 ratings
57.
Digital Memory and the Archive (Volume 39) (Electronic Mediations)
by:
Wolfgang Ernst
3.66 avg rating β 59 ratings
58.
What is Media Archaeology?
by:
Jussi Parikka
3.55 avg rating β 104 ratings
59.
What Is Media Archaeology?
by:
Jussi Parikka
3.55 avg rating β 104 ratings
60.
Digital Contagions: A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses
by:
Jussi Parikka
4.50 avg rating β 6 ratings
61.
Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala
by:
Kirsten Weld
4.19 avg rating β 204 ratings