What is Information Science? This comprehensive book answers this key question and explains how information science differs from data science and library science.
Using a range of practical examples, the book explores how information science cuts across disciplines and integrates a range of information into a coherent whole. Starting with a historical overview of information science, subsequent chapters explore:
- communication tools
- information integrity and behaviour
- artificial intelligence and data science
- information retrieval, curation and non-verbal information
- information in technology, education and politics.
A core text for those teaching library and information science as well as practising librarians or those working in information and communication fields, Information Science is an authoritative and subject-defining publication.
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This book is an impressive achievement and a treat to review. So much information sourced, analysed, arranged and advanced in a highly readable way, so much time saved for the reader, so valuable as a foundational text.
" - Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association
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'[…] a sweeping exploration not just of information science but of information itself. For anyone interested in the development of the discipline, this deceptively slim volume offers a rigorous, intellectually satisfying framework for understanding not only what information is, but why our work matters.'
" - Legal Information Management
