BIG THANKS to all who sent me info (while wondering why I hadn't just googled the topic myself) . . . and I still can't get over that Rob Kling is gone as I was having drinks with him in the Milwuakee Art Museum 2 years ago and he was brilliant! I was actually looking for a textbook that discussed social infomatics as a possibility within a range of fields: In other words, the history of social infomatics discussed alongside the history of other computing fields, such as HCI, CSCW, AI, etc. I have a lot of 'management information systems' textbooks but they are quite slanted to the business application side of things. The textbook I do have is just a bit dated: Maule, R. W. (1998). Information theory and research: An introduction to the disciplines and methodologies of information studies and organizational informatics. San Francisco, Information Associates Press. But thanks heaps for all the responses and I will scout through the websites looking for textbook type stuff. Cheers, Denise ===== Denise N. Rall, PhD student, School of Env. Science, Southern Cross Uni, Marker for Protected/Natural Area Management, BIO00244 Lismore, NSW, 2480 Australia Phone +61-2-6624-8627 Fax +61-2-6624-8637 Office (Thursdays) (02) 6620 3577 Mob 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/index.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html