Library and Information Science: Its Content and Scope

A thoughtful and eminently readable history of the changing definitions of the field of library/information science is provided, a working definition of the broader frame of information science as a field of research is given, and orientation strategies for the future are suggested.

Abstract

This paper provides a thoughtful and eminently readable history of the changing definitions of the field of library/information science, gives a working definition of the broader frame of information science as a field of research, and suggests orientation strategies for the future. it offers the dominant them for this volume by supporting the definition of information science as a cognitive science that facilitates the effective communication of desired information between human generator and user, which is developed in its many variant applications in the articles that follow