2nd Edition

Introduction to Information Science

By David Bawden, Lyn Robinson Copyright 2022
416 Pages
by Facet Publishing

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... Read more

Foreword by Luciano Floridi

1. The information science discipline

2. History of information: the story of documents

3. Philosophies of information

4. Paradigms, turns, and theories in the information sciences

5. Information

6. Documents and documentation

7. Domain analysis

8. Information organization

9. Digital technologies and data systems

10. Information systems

11. Informetrics

12. Information behaviour

13. Communicating information: changing contexts

14. Information management and policy

15. Information law and ethics

16. Information society

17. Digital (onlife) literacies

18. Research in the information sciences

19. The future of the information sciences

Biography

David Bawden is Professor of Information Science at City, University of London, and editor of Journal of Documentation, and has published extensively in library and information science.

Lyn Robinson is Reader in Library and Information Science and Head of CityLIS at City, University of London. She is a well-known writer and presenter, and author of Understanding Healthcare Information (2013).