Introduction to information science / David Bawden and Lyn Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bawden, David, author.

Robinson, Lyn, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 386 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Facet, 2022.

Summary:

The second edition of this definitive text gives a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the subject, bringing it up to date with analysis of the changes in the information environment, now largely digital, and their implication for the discipline and professions. Its approach is rooted in the philosophical, theoretical, and conceptual foundations of the subject and, in particular, in Floridi's ideas of the fourth revolution, hyperhistory, and onlife. The theory-practice relationship is strongly emphasised throughout, and the extensive literature coverage makes this a valuable sourcebook. This second edition is extensively revised, with largely new text, illustrations, and resources, and offers a global perspective. The main topics covered include: foundations: philosophies, theories, concepts, ethics, and historical perspectives organising, retrieving, and analysing information and data information behaviour, domain analysis, and digital literacies digital technologies, information systems, and information management information research methods and informetrics changing modes of information communication, and information society the nature and future of the information disciplines and professions. This book will be a standard text for students of library and information disciplines, including information science, librarianship, information and knowledge management, archives and records management, and digital humanities. It will also serve as an introduction for those beginning research in these areas, and as a resource for thoughtful and reflective practitioners.

Contents:

Cover

Praise for Introduction to Information Science

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Figures

Preface

Foreword - Curators of Semantic Capital, by Luciano Floridi

List of Acronyms

1 The Information Science Discipline

Introduction

The nature of information science

What kind of discipline?

Constituents and core

Overlaps with other information disciplines

History of information science

Summary

Key readings

References

2 History of Information: the Story of Documents

Information ages?

Prehistory and the ancient world

The classical world

The medieval world

The age of print

The age of mass communication

The documentation age

3 Philosophies of Information

Philosophy and its relevance to information science

Philosophies of information

Philosophies of knowledge

Critical theory and media theory

4 Paradigms, Turns and Theories in the Information Sciences

Paradigms and turns

Theories

5 Information

Information in computing and communications: Shannon theory

Information in the physical world

Information in the biological world

Information in the social world

Mind the gap: unified theories of information

6 Documents and Documentation

Document theory

Categorising and organising documents

Collections

7 Domain Analysis

Information domains

Domain terminologies

Domain analysis

Examples of domains

Domain-specialist information work

8 Information Organisation

Introduction.

Fundamentals of information organisation

Metadata

Resource description

Classification and categorisation

Taxonomy and ontology

Alphabetic vocabularies

Creating subject metadata

9 Digital Technologies and Data Systems

Digital technologies

Networks

Interfaces, interaction and information architecture

Data systems

10 Information Systems

Information systems

Information retrieval, databases and discovery tools

Library, repository and collection management systems

Systems for digital scholarship

Information systems for creativity and innovation

11 Informetrics

Historical developments

How much information is there?

The main informetric laws

Network analysis

Applications of informetrics

12 Information Behaviour

Origins and development of information behaviour studies

Methods for studying information behaviour

Information behaviour concepts

Theories and models of information behaviour

Information behaviour of groups

Individual differences and information styles

13 Communicating Information: Changing Contexts

Information chains and lifecycles

Communicating data

Communicating knowledge

Quality and ethical issues

Information places and spaces

14 Information Management and Policy

Information management: fundamentals and models

Data management

Document management and content management

Library and repository management

Memory institutions' information management

Archives and records management.

Knowledge management

Business intelligence and environment scanning

Collection management

Information governance

Information policies and strategies

User needs analysis and information audit

Valuing information and evaluating information services

General management issues

15 Information Law and Ethics

The legal and ethical context

Information law

Information ethics

Ethics of informational privacy

Legal and ethical implications of artificial intelligence

16 Information Society

Understanding information society

Information society infrastructures

Social informatics

Pathologies of the information society

17 Digital (Onlife) Literacies

Why 'digital literacies'?

A variety of literacies

Contexts for digital literacies

Evaluating information and avoiding mis- and disinformation

Promoting digital literacies

18 Research in the Information Sciences

Research and the practitioner

Information research approaches

Information research methods: general aspects

Research methods (1): document-based research

Research methods (2): experiment and observation

Research methods (3): evaluation and design

Research methods (4): surveys, interviews and Delphi

Sampling, data analysis and statistics

Research ethics

19 The Future of the Information Sciences

Predicting and prophesying

Curating the infosphere

The future of a multidiscipline

The big issues

Additional Resources

Other textbooks

Journals

Abstracting and indexing services.

Reference sources

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781783304967

1783304960

9781783305261

1783305266