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Library & information science

Books Are for Use: The Five Laws of Library Science

The Five Laws of Library Science are five short principles, published by the Indian mathematician and librarian S. R. Ranganathan in 1931, that sum up whom and what a library exist

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Tourism studies

Travel That Lingers: Slow Travel

Slow travel is a way of traveling in which you stay in one place for a long time and experience it at a pace close to everyday life, rather than brushing past many places in a shor

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Library & information science

The Power to Handle Information: Information Literacy (IL)

Information literacy is the ability to recognize what information you need, find it, evaluate it, and use it ethically. This article covers its definition and origins, the core fra

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Information technology

Just Keep the Key Secret: Kerckhoffs's Principle

Kerckhoffs's Principle holds that a cryptographic system should stay secure even if everything except the key is known. This piece covers Auguste Kerckhoffs's 1883 “La Cryptographi

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Library & information science

Dreaming of the Internet on Paper Cards: The Mundaneum

The Mundaneum was a vast index-card archive founded in Brussels by Belgian lawyers Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine to gather the world’s knowledge in one place. This article cover

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Film & media

Video Shooting Techniques and How to Edit Using Shots

Why do films and dramas cut from distant shots to close ones? This article explains the main shot types used in video production, namely the long shot, full shot, medium shot, bust

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Psychology

Rationalization: The Story Our Minds Create

Rationalization is a psychological defense mechanism that refers to the process by which people create logical explanations for their behavior or emotions. It is an attempt to just