Conceptions of library and information science   Edited by Pertti Vakkari and Blaise Cronin     ISBN 0 947568 52 2 1992 £25.00/US$46.00     Order this book   Recommend to library   Back   Home

CONTENTS   Opening the horizon of expectations Pertti Vakkari   Information science: origin, evolution and relations Tefko Saracevic     HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES   Library and information science research in the Nordic Countries in 1965-89 Hans Eirik Aarek, Kalervo Järvelin, Leif Kajberg, Maj Klasson and Pertti Vakkari   Restructuring and mobilising information in documents: a historical perspective W. Boyd Rayward     PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACHES   Information science and hermeneutics - should information science be interpreted as a historical and humanistic science? Ivar A. Hoel   What is information science for? A philosophical reflection Rafael Capurro   A philosophy of science perspective - on the idea of a unifying information science Søren Brier     EXPLORING THE DOMAIN   The evolution of library and information science 1965-1985. A content analysis of journal articles Kalervo Järvelin and Pertti Vakkari   The hidden influencers: an examination of the role played by mentors and trusted assessors in the evolution of information science Blaise Cronin   Knowledge and power in library and information science: toward a discourse analysis of the cognitive viewpoint Bernd Frohmann     SEARCH FOR PARADIGMS   The sense-making theory - an alternative to intermediary-centred approaches in library and information science? Reijo Savolainen   Paradigms and proto-paradigms in information retrieval research David Ellis   A systems theory of access Alvin M. Schrader   Information science and theory: a weaver bird's perspective Gernot Wersig     PROBLEMS IN THEORY BUILDING   Theory building in library and information studies: selective contemporary theoretical constructs in perspective Yves Khawam