Bibliography (Sources you may be interested in but are NOT REQUIRED to read)
Call numbers refer to books in the General Collection unless otherwise noted.

Early Communication of Information:

• Bandi - The Art of the Stone Age; Forty Thousand Years of Rock Art - N5310.S683
• Before the Alphabet (VHS - Video) - UNCW Documentary VHS P211 .B33 1989 
• Raphael - Prehistoric Cave Paintings - N5310.R3
• Rogers - Painted Rock to Printed Page - Z4. R65
• Schmandt-Besserat - How Writing Came About - netLibrary
• Signs of the Times: The History of Writing, a Survey from the Mesopotamian Valley to Silicon Valley (VHS - Video) - UNCW Reserves P211 .S536 1996    

Books and Libraries:

• Battles - Library: An Unquiet History -  Z721 .B28 2003
• Fourie & Dowell - Libraries in the Information Age: An Introduction and Career Exploration -  Z665 .F74 2002 
• Gorman - Our Enduring Values - Z716.4 .G67 2000 
• Harris, Hannah & Harris - Into the Future: The Foundations of Library and Information Services in the Post-Industrial Era - Z665 .H287 1998 
• Kilgour - The Evolution of the Book - Z4.K54 1998
• Moran - Printing Presses - Z249.M748 1973
• Olmert - The Smithsonian Book of Books - Z4.O 54 1992
• Whiteley - American Library Association Guide to Information Access - Z711.A39 1994

Knowledge and Information:

• "How Much Information?"  (Executive Summary)
• Brown - The Social Life of Information - HM851 .B76 2000 
• Feather - The Information Society: A Study of Continuity and Change - HM851 .F43 2004
• Feather & Sturges - International Encyclopedia of Information and Library Science - Reference Z1006.I57 2003
• Lester & Koehler - Fundamentals of Information Studies: Understanding Information and its Environment - Z665 .L488 2003
 
• Norton - Introductory Concepts in Information Science - Z665 .I67 2000    
 
• Raber - The Problem of Information: An Introduction to Information Science - Z665 .R24 2003
• Roszak - The Cult of Information: A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking - T58.5 .R67 1994 
• Rubin - Foundations of Library and Information Science - Z665.2.U6 R83 2000 
• Schement (ed.) - Encyclopedia of Communication and Information - Ref P87.5 .E53 2002 (3 vols) 
• Van Doren - A History of Knowledge - AZ 221.V36 1991
• Wurman - Information Anxiety - P90.W8 1989
• Wurman - Information Anxiety 2 - P90 .W8 2001

Information Organization

• Lee - Improved Access to Information: Portals, Content Selection, and Digital Information - Z692.C65 U54 2003   
• Svenonius - The Intellectual Foundation of Information Organization - netLibrary
• Taylor - The Organization of Information - Z666.6.T39 2004

Information Technology and the Internet:

• Bidgoli - Encyclopedia of Information Systems - Reference QA 76.15.E516 2003 (4 volumes)
• Gates - The Road Ahead - ZA 3250.U6 G38 1996
• Harris - I Found it on the Internet: Coming of Age Online - Z718.5 .H38 2005
• Mintz - Web of Deception - ZA4201.W43 2002
• Radrod/Barnes/Barr - Web Research: Selecting, Evaluating, and Citing - ZA 4201.R33 2002
• Segaller - Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet - TK 5105.875.I57 S44 1998
• Sherman/Price - The Invisible Web - ZA 4450.S54 2001

Misinformation:

• Burnam - The Dictionary of Misinformation - AZ999.B87 1975
• Burnam - More Misinformation - AZ999.B88 1980
• Goldberg - The Blunder Book - AZ999.G6 1984

Online Resources

Copyright

• Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States

History

• From Cave Paintings to the Internet A Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media
• HyperHistory Online 

History (or Evolution) of Information

• History of Information Retrieval Systems & Increase of Information Over Time
• Information Age Exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History
• Media History Project
• Timeline of the History of Information

History of Books and Libraries

• The Perseus Project: An Evolving Digital Library on Ancient Greece
• Turning the Pages: Online Gallery
• World Treasures of the Library of Congress

History of Computing

• Computers Communications Museum
• Smithsonian: Computer History Collection
• Charles Babbage Institute

History of the Internet

• Computer and Internet Timeline
• Internet History

History of Technology

• History of Information Technology Timeline
• IEEE History Center
• Medieval Technology
• Time-warp: Archiving Technology through the Decades
• Center for History and New Media

Libraries

• "Libraries: How They Stack Up"
• American Library Association (ALA)

Metadata

• Visualizing Bibliographic Metadata - A Virtual (Book) Spine Viewer

Misinformation and Disinformation

• Information and Its Counterfeits: Propaganda, Misinformation and Disinformation