Library and information science

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Library and information science
Histories
Libraries - Information
Focus
Archives management - Collections management (Preservation) - Data management - Information management (cataloguing) - Knowledge management - Library management
Curation
Data - Metadata - Information - Documents - Artefacts - Knowledge
Interdisciplinary fields
Archival science - Communication studies - Computer science - Data science - Documentation science - Epistemology - Library science - Information science - Science and technology studies
Areas
Academic - Archival - Legal - Health - Private - Public - School - Special

Library and Information Science (LIS)[1][2] are two interconnected disciplines that deal with information management. This includes organization, access, collection, and regulation of information, both in physical and digital forms.[3]

Library science and information science are two original disciplines; however, they are within the same field of study.[4][5] Library science is applied information science.[6] Library science is both an application and a subfield of information science. Due to the strong connection, sometimes the two terms are used synonymously.

  1. ^ Bates, M.J.; Maack, M.N. (2010). Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences. Vol. 1–7. Boca Raton, US: CRC Press.
  2. ^ Library and Information Sciences is the name used in the Dewey Decimal Classification for class 20 from the 18th edition (1971) to the 22nd edition (2003)
  3. ^ Coleman, A. (2002). Interdisciplinarity: The Road Ahead for Education in Digital Libraries.D-Lib Magazine, 8:8/9 (July/August).https://www.dlib.org/dlib/july02/coleman/07coleman.html
  4. ^ Saracevic, Tefko (1992). Information science: origin, evolution and relations. In: Conceptions of library and information science. Historical, empirical and theoretical perspectives. Edited by Pertti Vakkari & Blaise Cronin. London: Taylor Graham (pp. 5–27).
  5. ^ Miksa, Francis L. (1992). Library and information science: two paradigms. In: Conceptions of library and information science. Historical, empirical and theoretical perspectives. Edited by Pertti Vakkari & Blaise Cronin. London: Taylor Graham (pp. 229–252).
  6. ^ Borko, H. (1968). Information science: What is it? American Documentation, 19(1), 3–5. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.5090190103.