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Foskett, D. (1995). "Librarians and information systems: a fruitful partnership". Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science. http://www.ualberta.ca/dept/slis/cais/" target="_new">http://www.ualberta.ca/dept/slis/cais/

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But before we can promote a sensible understanding between our groups of professionals in LIS, and our groups of users, we must be sure that we first understand what we are talking about. There is a great deal of confusion arising in discussions about the use of IT, and we may perhaps clear up some of this confusion is we clarify the meanings of three words, often used as if they are synonyms, which they are not. I refer to the words "data", "information", and "knowledge". I have drawn up what I call a "Pyramid of Wisdom (9K)", which is a graphic illustration of the relationship, as I see it, between these three terms, to which I have added a fourth, "Wisdom". You will not often find the word "wisdom" in the literature of librarianship, and still less in the literature of IT.
The speech provides cogent definitions of three slippery terms and in the process both clarifies their relationships to one another and makes one want to run out and create more knowledge. This inspiration is mixed in with an otherwise straightforward discussion of why information resources are valuable to librarians and how librarians have helped to improve informations resources.

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