What is Information Science?
It isn't a localized effort.
Read these before class and be ready to discuss them in class
- Read over the Wikipedia article on the topic.
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Look at:
Zins, C. (January 01, 2007). Knowledge Map of Information Science. Journal- American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58, 4, 526-535.
PDF version
Don't read it in detail, but do study Figure 2 on page 529.
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You might also want to look over this one
Saracevic, T.(2010).
Information science.
In M.J. Bates (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences (3rd edition)
New York, NY: CRC Press.
look at pages 2570-2577 for today. We'll come back to it again.
We'll use a dollar bill to decide who will lead us on the first two minute reviews and previews on Thursday.
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