Required Books for LIS 2000: Understanding Information

• Baker, Nicholson. Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. Vintage Books,  ISBN: 0375726217, paperback.
• Barbasi, Albert-Laszlo. Linked: the New Science of Networks. Plume Publishers, Paperback, ISBN: 0452284392.
• Brown, John Seely, and Paul Daguid. The Social Life of Information. Harvard Business School Press, paperback, ISBN: 1578517087.
• Huberman, Bernardo. The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information. MIT Press, 2001, 2003. paperback, ISBN: 0262582252.
• Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press, 3rd edition, ISBN: 0226458083.
• Lesk, Michael. Understanding Digital Libraries. Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 2nd Edition, ISBN: 1-55860-924-5.
• Litman, Jessica. Digital Copyright. Prometheus Books, 2000, 2006. ISBN: 159102420X. Paperback
  
• Shneiderman, Ben. Leonardo’s Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies. MIT Press, 2003, ISBN: 0262692996.
• Sunstein, Cass. Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge. Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN: 0195189280.
• Vaidhyanathan, Siva. The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System.  Basic Books Publishers, paperback, ISBN: 0465089852.
• Winchester, Simon.  The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press, 2004. Paperback, ISBN: 978-0195175004.

The books listed below are available in digital form under open access licenses. There is no need to buy them.

• Benkler, Yochai. The Wealth of Networks. Yale University Press; 2006; ISBN: 0300110561.
• Lessig, Lawrence. Code: Version 2.0. Basic Books, 2006. ISBN: 13: 978–0–465–03914–2.
• Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. Penguin Press Publishers, ISBN: 0143034650.
• Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software. Edited by Joseph Feller, et al. MIT Press, 2005. ISBN: 0-262-06246-1.
• Willinsky, John. The Access Principle: the Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship. MIT Press, 2005, ISBN: 0262232421.