Following the too much information on being human at senate house, which seems to me absurd, there cannot be too much information; but there can be too many informations. I noticed this in the early 1980s, after I had turned librarians for social change into information systems for social change, that there was an information theory, an information science, an information processing, then there was LISC, 1986, and the Computer Board became JISC, while UCISA etc popped up and the BCS decided it was the society for information systems engineering.
I was clear what I meant by information systems.
Now following the Being Human, I picked up a leaflet for the Partnership in London of the Arts and the Humanities, and within their four panels, they have a thing called library and information systems.
So something is coming home.
The leaflet doesn't say where the brackets go, nor the semantics of the and, so I'm going to coin brandoids #brandoids joining my andoid, which is a list on linkedin with brackets.
When you have to explain to someone what where do the brackets go, you know the same planet has not yet been joined.
John Lindsay
Reader in Information Systems Design
Kingston University,
Kingston Upon Thames,
London.
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