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.
Key Features
- 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
Additional Information
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.
