Posted on behalf of Steering Committee member Professor Janet McCalman, who writes:
I am anxious that a paper, originally recommended to me by Pip Pattison, be shared as widely as possible in the academic community and among those involved in the IF Commission.
The document is a draft paper (2007) by Andrew Abbott on “library research as a form of computation.” It is available from the ‘books and papers’ list on Abbott’s personal web site.
The Information Futures Commission’s Consultation Paper quotes from this document, and from other works by Abbott, who is a sociologist at the University of Chicago.