School libraries and The Information Hierarchy
If someone had asked me prior to studying ETL401 to define ‘information’, I would have described it as: facts pertaining to a particular topic. This initial understanding of ‘information’ aligns with a semantic way of thinking; that information must contain meaning and be of a factual or instructional nature (Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2015). Seeing information through the lens of the classic definition, that focuses more on the transmission of information separate from meaning, gave me another perspective that I…
