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Reductionism and library and information science philosophy
Journal of Documentation, 2008PurposeThe purpose of this article is to consider the meaning of “reductionism” within the context of renewed efforts to make library and information science philosophy.Design/methodology/approachThis article argues that the question of reductionism, as discussed in other traditions of thought, is relevant to the conversation about development of new ...
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Library and Information Science
2017Library and Information Science (LIS) is an interdisciplinary domain concerned with the creation, management, and uses of information in all its forms. Emerging from parallel developments in libraries and in information science, the field now encompasses diverse activities that are part of the information transfer cycle—such as the creation ...
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Library Hi Tech and information science
Library Hi Tech, 2012PurposeThis article aims to look at the relationship between Library Hi Tech and the academic field of information science.Design/methodology/approachThis is an opinion piece whose methodology is in part historical review, and in part observation of present and future trends.FindingsLibrary‐based information is no longer almost exclusively text ...
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Constructing ‘users’ in library and information science
Aslib Proceedings, 1999This article issues a challenge to information service providers and to researchers in information management to reflect on the ways the concept of ‘users’ has been constructed and applied. It is argued that we need to be mindful of the conceptual parameters we establish by our notions of users and the implications of those parameters as these inform ...
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Democratic theory in library information science
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2008AbstractA recent article by Joseph Buschman regrets that democratic theory is an unfinished idea. The argument appears to assume an essential relationship between library and information science (LIS) and democratic theory. Libraries services are important for undemocratic purposes also, and like other sociotechnical systems, partake on the cultural ...
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Conceptions of Library and Information Science
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The Fate of the Document in Library and Information Science
Library TrendsAbstract: Library and information science is torn between two radically different understandings of one of the field’s foundational concepts, the document. The “library” side of the field sees the document as generative, while the “information” side sees it as residual, if not “dead on arrival.” The essay begins by tracing this difference to Kant’s ...
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