Jon Sigurdson

Book Reviews: The coming of the information society and the disappearance of libraries

The Journal of Information Science does not normally carry a book review section, though it is contemplating including a particular approach to such a feature at some future date. In selecting this book for review, the Journal is not highlighting it as a work of outstanding merit but as providing (as was its intention) a useful and a stimulating anthology for discussion. Consequently, the Journal has commissioned a number of reviews from outside the UK, of which the first two appear in this issue, from Sweden and Ger-

Japan’s Pursuit of Knowledge: Reversing the Flow of Information

There is little doubt that the Japanese, as a nation, have been eager to collect and process information about the external world. This has contributed in no small measure to the economic successes of the recent decades, although there are few if any attempts to measure and evaluate this particular element of the country’s development.