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Introduction to Information Science: (Foundations of the Information Sciences)

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This landmark textbook takes a whole subject approach to Information Science as a discipline.
Introduced by leading international scholars and offering a global perspective on the discipline, this is designed to be the standard text for students worldwide. The authors’ expert narrative guides you through each of the essential building blocks of information science offering a concise introduction and expertly chosen further reading and resources.
Critical topics covered include:

  • foundations: concepts, theories and historical perspectives
  • organising and retrieving Information
  • information behaviour, domain analysis and digital literacies
  • technologies, digital libraries and information management
  • information research methods and informetrics
  • changing contexts: information society, publishing, e-science and digital humanities
  • the future of the discipline.

Readership: Students of information science, information and knowledge management, librarianship, archives and records management worldwide. Students of other information-related disciplines such as museum studies, publishing, and information systems and practitioners in all of these disciplines.



Table of Contents:

Forewords

  • Information science and 21st century information practices: creatively engaging with information - Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson
  • The emerging discipline of information - Andrew Dillon
  • The scope of information science - Jonathan Furner
  • A fascinating field and a pragmatic enterprise - Birger Hjørland
  • A slippery and ubiquitous concept - Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan
  • The future of information science - Maja Žumer

1. What is information science? Disciplines and professions

  • Introduction
  • The nature of information science
  • What kind of discipline is information science?
  • Constituents and core
  • Other information disciplines
  • The uniqueness of information science
  • History of information science
  • Summary
  • Key readings
  • References

2. History of information: the story of documents

  • Introduction
  • Information ages?
  • Prehistory and the ancient world
  • The classical and medieval worlds
  • The age of print
  • The 19th century
  • The 20th century
  • Summary
  • Key readings
  • References

3. Philosophies and paradigms of information science

  • Introduction
  • Philosophy and the information sciences
  • Philosophical positions
  • Paradigms and turns
  • Philosophers and information science
  • Karl Popper and objective epistemology
  • Jesse Shera and social epistemology
  • Luciano floridi and the philosophy of information
  • Summary
  • Key readings
  • Philosophy resources
  • References

4. Basic concepts of information science

  • Introduction
  • Information and knowledge
  • Information: physical, biological, social
  • A mathematical theory of information, with a little semiotics
  • Information for information science
  • Knowledge for information science
  • Documents
  • Collections
  • Relevance and aboutness
  • Information use and users
  • Summary
  • Key readings
  • References

5. Domain analysis

  • Introduction
  • Domain analysis as a theory for information science
  • What is a domain?
  • Aspects of domain analysis
  • Practical value of domain analysis
  • Examples of domain analysis
  • Domain analysis and the subject specialist
  • Summary
  • Key readings
  • References

6. Information organization

  • Introduction
  • Controlled vocabulary and facet analysis
  • Terminologies
  • Metadata
  • Resource description and cataloguing
  • Ontologies
  • Systematic vocabularies: classification and taxonomy
  • Alphabetic vocabularies: subject headings and thesauri
  • Abstracting
  • Indexing and tagging
  • Summary
  • Key readings
  • References

7. Information technologies: creation, dissemination and retrieval

  • Introduction
  • What are information technologies?
  • Digital technologies
  • Networks
  • Mobile and pervasive
  • Software
  • Interacting with computers
  • Information systems, analysis, architecture and design
  • Applications
  • Summary
  • Key readings
  • References

8. Informetrics

  • Introduction
  • Historical development of informetrics
  • How much information is there?
  • The main informetric laws
  • Network theory
  • Applying informetrics
  • Summary
  • Key readings
  • References

9. Information behaviour

  • Introduction
  • What is information behaviour?
  • Origins and development of information behaviour studies
  • Theories and models
  • Methods for studying information behaviour
  • Information behaviour of groups
  • Individual information behaviour styles
  • Summary: so what do we know?
  • Key readings
  • References

10. Communicating information: changing contexts

  • Introduction
  • Communication frameworks
  • Changing information landscapes
  • Digitizing the world of print
  • Changing economic models
  • Open access and repositories
  • New forms of communication
  • New forms of research and scholarship
  • Information places and spaces
  • Summary
  • Key readings
  • References

11. Information society

  • Introduction
  • What is the information society?
  • Frameworks for information society
  • Information society infrastructures
  • Problems and divides within the information society
  • Summary
  • Key readings
  • References

12. Information management and policy

  • Introduction
  • Information management basics
  • Contexts of information management
  • Information governance and information risk
  • Information policies and strategies
  • Information auditing and mapping
  • Valuing information
  • Information for creativity and innovation
  • Summary
  • Key readings
  • References

13. Digital literacy

  • Introduction
  • Information and computer literacies
  • The information-literate person
  • The concept of digital literacy
  • A model for digital literacy
  • Importance of digital literacy
  • Promoting digital literacy
  • Summary
  • Key readings
  • References

14. Information science research: what and how?

  • Introduction
  • Styles of information research
  • General aspects of research methods
  • Research and the practitioner
  • Research methods for information science
  • Research methods – surveys
  • Research methods – experimenting, evaluating and observing
  • Research methods – desk research
  • Sampling
  • Information research ethics
  • Finding and evaluating research
  • Summary
  • Key readings
  • References

15. The future of the information sciences

  • Introduction
  • Predicting and prophesying
  • Drivers for change
  • What lies ahead for information professions and disciplines
  • Information research agendas
  • The future of information science
  • Summary
  • Key readings
  • References

Additional resources

  • Other textbooks
  • Journals
  • Abstracting and indexing services
  • Reference sources


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781783300761
  • Publisher: Facet Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Facet Publishing
  • Height: 0 mm
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Weight: 0 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1783300760
  • Publisher Date: 10 Jun 2015
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Foundations of the Information Sciences
  • Width: 0 mm


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