Jonathan Furner Associate Professor Information Studies 224 GSE&IS (310) 825 5210 furner@gseis.ucla.edu personal page

Education

Ph.D., Information Studies, University of Sheffield, 1994
M.Sc., Information Management, University of Sheffield, 1991
B.A. (now M.A.), Philosophy / Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, 1987

Research Interests

Cultural informatics; history and philosophy of documentation.

Current Research Projects

Teaching Interests

Information structures; subject cataloging and classification; visual resources; scholarly communication and bibliometrics.

Current Academic Year Courses

INFS20 -- Introduction to Information Studies -- spring '07
INFS260 -- Information Structures -- winter '07
INFS289 -- Visual Resources -- spring '07

News

Dr. Furner returned to UCLA in fall 2006 after a year's leave of absence at the Library of Congress (Washington, DC) and a six-month visiting fellowship at the School of World Art Studies and Museology, University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK).

Recent Publications

Conceptual analysis: A method for understanding information as evidence, and evidence as information. Archival Science 4 (2004): 233-265.

"A brilliant mind": Margaret Egan and social epistemology. Library Trends 52 (2004): 792-809.

Information studies without information. Library Trends 52 (2004): 427-447.

Little book, big book: Before and after Little science, big science: A review article, Parts I and II. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 35 (2003): 115-125, 189-201.

On recommending. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 53 (2002): 747-763.

Shera's social epistemology recast as psychological bibliology. Social Epistemology 16 (2002): 5-22.

[with C. L. Borgman] Scholarly communication and bibliometrics. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology 36 (2002): 3-72.