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Builders of The Global Village

Author: Amjad Ali

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ISBN 8184050321
Year of Publication 2007
Binding HardBound
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Language English
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Over the last many centuries, humanbeings innovated different methods of transferring information to distant places with ever-improving quality and efficiency. They brought Information Revolution, which transformed the entire world in to a Global Village. It took place in varied periods of history and the most notable of them was set off by invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century. Information Revolution has now taken a new form of "electronic interdependence," an era when electronic media replace the culture producing new social organization. The electronic technologies of telephone, radio, television, computers and Internet and their interpretation by renowned scholars in social context have caused Information Explosion. Traditional understandings of space and time have been collapsed by the current speed of electronic transmissions. This book provides information on the lives of the ten great thinkers writers, scientists and engineers of all times who pioneered Information Revolution. It encompasses their biographical accounts, innovations and individual contribution to the society.

Introduction
1. Johannes Gutenberg
2. Alexander Bell Grahm
3. Gulielmo Marconi
4. John Logie Baird
5. Charles Babbage
6. Marshall Mc Luhan
7. Arthur C. Clark
8. Alvin Toffler
9. Bill Gates
10. tim Berners -Lee
11 Larry Page
Beneral Bibliography and Links

Dr. Amjad Ali (Ph. D. in Library and Information Science) started his service career from Doordarshan (India Television) in 1982. A year later, he joined the prestigious Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi as Librarian (in charge of the Library Resource and Documentation Unit). He was also engaged as Academic Counselor with IGNOU. In 1993, he joined Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh as Deputy Librarian where he still continues. In the meanwhile, he has been on a foreign assignment as Information Specialist with King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was also selected as Librarian (on panel) for the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Dr. Amjad Ali has published 20 books and a number of research papers. He has been recognized as Guide for M. Phil and Ph. D. in Library and information Science by some reputed universities of the country. The other books authored by him and brought out by the leading publishers of the country include:
1. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Library and Information Science (3 vols.)
2. Information Technology and Libraries (Library and Paperback editions)
3. Reference Service and the Digital Sources of Information (Library and Paperback editions)
4. Learning in the Information Age.
5. Information in Higher Education
6. Oriental libraries of India and their Collections
7. Glossary of Library and Information Science (2 vols.)
8. Oriental Manuscripts Worldwide
9. Digital Libraries in the Making
10. Encyclopedia of Information Technology (2 vols.)
11. Digital Libraries in Higher Education
12. Working with the News media
13. Libraries and Librarians of the World

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