Library and information science: Practice, theory, and philosophical basis

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 501-531

  Hjørland, Birger ^a  

^a ROYAL SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; LIBRARIES; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE (LIS);

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 0033882499     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(99)00038-2     Document Type: Article

References (124)

1. Alston W.P. Empiricism. Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy, Version 1.0. vol. 3:1998;298-303 Routledge, London.
2. Anon. (1993). Proposal for a School of Information Management and Systems. Unpublished material. [Source: Olsson, 1995, p. 244].
3. Bar-Hillel Y. Language and information. 1964;Addison-Wesley, London.
4. Barlow D.H. The scientist practitioner. 1992;Allyn and Bacon, Boston.
5. Belkin, N. J. (1975). Some Soviet Concepts of Information for Information Science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 56-64.
6. Belkin, N. (1977). A Concept of Information for Information Science. London: University of London. (Doctoral dissertation).
7. Benediktsson D. Hermeneutics: Dimensions towards LIS thinking. Library and Information Science Research. 11:1989;201-234.
8. Björkbom C. Sambibliotek-världsbibliotek. Svensk Tidsskrift. 40:1953;320-327.
9. Björkbom, C. (1960). Dokumentation (p. 423-434 i: Nordisk Håndbog i Bibliotekskundskab, Bind III. Red. af Svend Dahl. Udg. af Nordisk videnskabeligt Bibliotekarforbund. København: Alfred G.Hassing A/S. 3 bind).
10. Blair D.C. Language and representation in information retrieval. 1990;Elsevier, Amsterdam.
11. Borko H. Information science: What is it? American Documentation. 19:(1):1968;3-5.
12. Brier S. Cybersemiotics: A new paradigm in analyzing the problems of Knowledge Organization and Document Retrieval in Information Science. Ingwersen P., Pors N.O. Proceedings CoLIS 2: Second International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science; Integration in Perspective; 1996 13-16 October. 1996;23-43 Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen, Denmark.
13. Briet S. Qu'est-ce que la documentation? 1951;Editions Documentaires Industrielle et Techniques, Paris.
14. Brookes B.C. Personal transferable skills for the modern information professional. Journal of Information Science. 15:1989;115-117.
15. Budd J.M. An epistemological foundation for library and information science. Library Quarterly. 65:(3):1995;295-318.
16. Butler P. An introduction to library science. 1933;University of Chigago Press, Chicago, IL.
17. Bøgh Andersen P. A theory of computer semiotics: Semiotic approaches to construction and assessment of computer systems. 1990;Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
18. Capurro R. Hermeneutik der Fachinformation. 1986;Verlag Karl Alber, München.
19. Chalmers A.F. What is this thing called Science? An assessment of the nature and status of science and its methods. 2nd ed. 1982;Hackett Publishing Company, Inc, Cambridge, Indianapolis.
20. Cleverdon C.W., Mills J., Keen E.M. Factors determining the performance of indexing systems (Test results). 2:1966;College of Aeronautics, Cranfield, England.
21. Code L. Feminist epistemology. Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy, Version 1.0. vol. 3:1998;597-602 Routledge, London.
22. Collier A. Critical realism. Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy, Version 1.0. vol. 2:1998;720-722 Routledge, London.
23. Cornelius I. Information and interpretation. Ingwersen P., Pors N.O. Proceedings CoLIS 2: Second international conference on conceptions of library and information science: Integration in perspective. 13-16 October, 1996. 1996;11-21 The Royal School of Librarianship, Copenhagen.
24. Cornelius I. Meaning and method in information studies. 1996;Ablex, Norwood, NJ.
25. Cronin B. Library orthodoxies: A decade of change. 1991;188-193 Taylor Graham, Los Angeles.
26. Daniels P., Brooks H., Belkin N. Using problem structures for driving human-computer dialogs. RIAO'85 Conference Proceedings. Grenoble: IMAG. 1985;645-660.
27. Denzig N.K., Lincoln. Handbook of qualitative research. 1994;Sage Publications, London.
28. Downes S.M. [Social] Constructivism. Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy, Version 1.0. vol. 2:1998;624-630 Routledge, London.
29. Eco U. The search for the perfect language. 1995;Blackwell, Oxford. (Translated from Italian: Ricerca della Lingua Perfetta Nell a Cultura Europea).
30. Ellis D. Progress and problems in information retrieval. 1996;Library Association, London.
31. Ermarth E.D. Postmodernism. Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy, Version 1.0. vol. 7:1998;587-590 Routledge, London.
32. Farkas-Conn I.S. From documention to information science. The beginnings and early development of the American Documentation Institute - American Society for information Science. 1990;Greenwood Press, New York.
33. Fine A. Scientific realism and antirealism. Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy, Version 1.0. vol. 8:1998;581-584 Routledge, London.
34. Floyd B.L., Phillips J.C. A question of quality: How authors and editors perceive library literature. College and Research Libraries. 58:(1):1997;81-93.
35. Foskett D.J. Review: Information and general system theory. Journal of Librarianship. 4:(3):1972;205-209.
36. Foskett D.J. General Systems Theory and the organisation of libraries. Studies in library management. vol. 2:1974;10-24 Clive Bingley, London.
37. Foskett D.J. Systems theory and its relevance to documentary classification. International Classification. 7:(1):1980;2-5.
38. Friedman M. Logical positivism. Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy, Version 1.0. vol. 5:1998;789-795 Routledge, London.
39. Frohmann B. Rules of indexing: A critique of mentalism in information retrieval theory. Journal of Documentation. 46:(2):1990;81-101.
40. Frohmann B. Discourse analysis as a research method in library and information science. Library and Information Science Research. 16:1994;119-138.
41. Frohmann B. The Social construction of knowledge organization: The case of Melvil Dewey. Advances in Knowledge Organization. 4:1994;109-117.
42. Garoogian R. Education for library education: Back to basics. Nelson N.M. Library technology 1970-1990. Shaping the library of the future. 1991;Meckler. Research Contributions from the 1990 Computers in Libraries Conference, Westport, Conn.
43. Griffith B.C. Key papers in information science. 1980;Knowledge Industry Publications, New York.
44. Gutting G. Post-structuralism in the social sciences. Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy, Version 1.0. vol. 7:1998;600-604 Routledge, London.
45. Hay F.J. The subject specialist in the academic library: A review article. The Journal of Academic Librarianship. 16:(1):1990;11-17.
46. Hirscheim R., Klein H.K. Four paradigms of information systems development. Communications of the ACM. 32:(19):1989;1199-1216.
47. Hjørland B. Information seeking and subject representation. An activity-theoretical approach to information science. 1997;Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut.
48. Hjørland B. Information retrieval, text composition, and semantics. Knowledge Organization. 25:(1/2):1998;16-31.
49. Hjørland B. Theory and metatheory of information science: A new interpretation. Journal of Documentation. 54:(5):1998;606-621.
50. Hjørland, B. (1998c). Officiel opposition ved Louise Limbergs disputation 20.Marts 1998 på Göteborgs Universitet [Titel: "At söka information för att lära. En studie av samspel mellan informationssökning och lärande"]. Svensk Biblioteksforskning, 1998(1), side 27-63.
51. Hjørland B. The classification of psychology: A case study in the classification of a knowledge field. Knowledge Organization. 25:(4):1998;162-201.
52. Hjørland, B. (2000). Documents, memory institutions, and information science. Journal of Documentation, 56(1). (special issue written by researchers at the Royal School of Library and Information Science in Denmark), 27-41.
53. Hjørland B., Albrechtsen H. Toward a new horizon in information science: Domain analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 46:(6):1995;400-425.
54. Howarth J. Phenomenology, epistemic issues. Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy, Version 1.0. 1998;Routledge, London.
55. Hoyningen-Huene P. Kuhn, Thomas Samuel (1922-96). Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy, Version 1.0. vol. 5:1998;315-318 Routledge, London.
56. Hutchins W.J. Languages of indexing and classification. A linguistic study of structures and functions. 1975;Peter Peregrinus, London.
57. Ingwersen P. Information retrieval interaction. 1992;Taylor Graham, London.
58. Inwood M. Hermeneutics. Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy, Version 1.0. vol. 4:1998;384-389 Routledge, London.
59. Israel J. Human methodology. Science Studies. 5:(1):1992;3-12.
60. Jarvie I.C. Popper, Karl Raimund (1902-94). Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy, Version 1.0. vol. 7:1998;533-540 Routledge, London.
61. Karamüftüoglu M. Semiotics of documentary information retrieval systems. Ingwersen P., Pors N.O. Proceedings CoLIS 2: Second international conference on conceptions of library and information science: Integration in perspective. 13-16 October, 1996. 1996;85-97 The Royal School of Librarianship, Copenhagen.
62. Keat R. Scientific realism and social science. Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy, Version 1.0. vol. 8:1998;584-587 Routledge, London.
63. Kincaid H. Positivism in the social sciences. Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy, Version 1.0. vol. 7:1998;558-561 Routledge, London.
64. Korfhage R.R. Information storage and retrieval. 1997;John Wiley & Sons, New York.
65. Kuhlen R. von Udo Hahn, Rainer Kuhlen, Ulrich Reimer. Informationslinguistik. Theoretische, experimentelle, curriculare und prognostische Aspekte einer informationswissenschaftlichen Teildisziplin. 1986;Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen.
66. Kuhn T.S. The structure of scientific revolutions. 1962, 1970;University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
67. Kunze, H., & Rückl, G. (1974). Lexikon des Bibliothekswesens. Band 1. Leipzig (Bibliothekswissenschaft 268-271).
68. Lancaster F.W. Indexing and abstracting in theory and practice. 2nd ed. 1998;Librray Association Publishing, London.
69. Langridge D.W. Classification and indexing in the humanities. 1976;Butterworths, London.
70. Langridge D.W. Subject analysis: Principles and procedures. 1989;Bowker-Saur, London.
71. Liebenau J., Backhouse J. Understanding information: An introduction. 1990;MacMillan, London.
72. Lund, N. W. (1995). Bibliotek og ... Dokument eller information? 8 pp. http://www.jbi.hioslo.no.ntfbf/nr-1/lund.htm ("sist oppdateret 6.februar 1995 af Niels Pharo").
73. Mai, J.-E. (1997). The concept of subject in a semiotic light. In Schwartz, C., & Rorvig, M. (Ed.), ASIS '97: Proceedings of the Sixtieth ASIS Annual Meeting 1997: Washington, 1-6 November, 1997: Digital Collections: Implications for Users, Funders, Developers and Maintainers (pp. 54-64). Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc.
74. Malmkjær K. Behaviourist linguistics. Malmkjær K. The linguistics encyclopedia. 1995;53-57 Routledge, London.
75. Malmkjær K. Functionalist linguistics. Malmkjær K. The linguistics encyclopedia. 1995;158-161 Routledge, London.
76. Malmkjær K. Rationalist linguistics. Malmkjær K. The linguistics encyclopedia. 1995;375-379 Routledge, London.
77. Mansfield U. The systems movement: an overview for information scientists. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 33:(6):1982;375-382.
78. Marchant M.P. An open system theory approach to library effectiveness. Library effectiveness. A state of the art. 1980;151-159 Library Administration and Management Association, New York.
79. Markie P.J. Rationalism. Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy, Version 1.0. vol. 8:1998;75-80 Routledge, London.
80. Martyn J., Lancaster F.W. Investigative methods in library and information science. 1981;Information Ressources Press, Arlington.
81. Mattessich R. The systems approach: Its variety of aspects. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 33:(6):1982;383-394.
82. Miksa F. The DDC, the universe of knowledge, and the post-modern library. 1998;Forrest Press, Albany, NY.
83. Myers G. Writing biology: Texts in the social construction of knowledge. 1990;University of Wisconsin Press, Madison.
84. Michajlov A.I., Cernyj A.I., Giljarevskij R.S. Wissenschaftliche kommunikation und informatik. 1980;VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. (Translated from the Russian edition of 1976).
85. Miller R.W. Marxist philosophy of science. Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy, Version 1.0. vol. 6:1998;147-150 Routledge, London.
86. Neelameghan A. Systems thinking in the study of the attributes of the universe of subjects. Debons A. Information science: Search for identity. 1974;139-170 Marcel Dekker, New York.
87. Nissen, H.-E., Klein, H. K., & Hirschheim, R. (1991). Information systems research: Contemporary approaches and emergent traditions, Proceedings of the IFIP TC8/WG 8.2 Working Conference on the Information Systems Research Arena of the 90's: Challenges, perceptions and alternative approaches, 14-16 December 1990, Copenhagen, Denmark. Amsterdam: North-Holland.
88. Olaisen J. Alternative paradigms in library science: The case for paradigmatic tolerance and pluralism. Libri. 35:(2):1985;129-150.
89. Olaisen J. Pluralism or positivistic trivialism: Important trends in contemporary philosophy of science. Nissen H.-E., Klein H.K., Hirschheim R. Information systems research: Contemporary approaches and emergent traditions. 1991;235-265 Elsevier Science Publishers B.V (North-Holland), Amsterdam.
90. Olson H.A. Universal models: a history of the organization of knowledge. Albrechtsen H., Oernager S. Proceedings of the Third International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) Conference: Knowledge Organization and Quality Management, Copenhagen, Denmark, 20-24 June 1994. 1994;INDEKS Verlag, Frankfurt/Main.
91. Olsson, L. (1995). Det datoriserade Biblioteket: Maskindrömmar på 70-talet. Lindköping: Lindköping Universitet, Tema Teknik och social förändring. (Doctoral dissertation).
92. Ørnager S. Image retrieval - Theoretical analysis and empirical user studies on accessing information in images. Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 34, 1997. 1997;202-211 Information Today, Inc, Medford, NJ.
93. Orr J.M. Libraries as communication systems. 1977;Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn. & London. (Contributions in librarianship and information science No. 17).
94. Otlet P. Traité de documentation: le livre sur le levre, theorie et pratique. 1934;Editions Mundaneium, Bruxelles.
95. Parker E.B. Systems theory analysis of feedback mechanisms for information systems. Users of Documentation: FID International Congress on Documentation, Buenos Aires, 21-24 September 1970. 1970;FID, The Hague. 22 p.
96. Petrilli S. Signs and values: For a critique of cognitive semiotics. Journal of Pragmatics. 20:(3):1993;239-251.
97. Prieto L.J., Dascal M. Relevance. Sebeok T.A. Encyclopedic dictionary of semiotics. 2nd ed. 1994;794-797 Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin & New York.
98. Rayward W.B. Visions of Xanadu: Paul Otlet (1868-1944) and hypertext. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 45:(4):1994;235-250.
99. Rorty R. Pragmatism. Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy, Version 1.0. vol. 7:1998;633-640 Routledge, London.
100. Ryan A., Bohman J. Systems theory in social science. Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy, Version 1.0. 1998;Routledge, London.
101. Sandstrom A.R., Sandstrom P.E. The use and misuse of anthropological methods in library and information Science research. Library Quarterly. 65:(2):1995;161-238.
102. Saracevic T. Information science: origin, evolution and relations. Tampere, CoLIS Conf., 1991. Conceptions of library and informaion science. 1992;S5-S27 Taylor Graham, London.
103. Schon D.A. The reflective practitioner: How professionals think in action. 1983;Basic Books, New York.
104. Schrader A.M. Toward a theory of library and information science. 1983;University Microfilm International, Ann Arbor. (2 Vols).
105. Schrettinger, M. (1807). Versuch eines vollständigen Lehrbuchs der Bibliothekswissenschaft. Band 1-2. München.
106. Sim S. The icon critical dictionary of postmodern thought. 1998;Icon Books, Cambridge, UK.
107. Slife B.D., Williams R.N. What's behind the research? Discovering hidden assumptions in the behavioral sciences. 1995;Sage Publications, London.
108. Smith J.A., Harré R., Van Langenhove L. Rethinking methods in psychology. 1995;Sage Publications, London.
109. Spang-Hanssen H. Roles and links compared with grammatical relations in natural language. 1976;DTL, Lyngby, Denmark.
110. Spark Jones K., Kay M. Linguistics and information science. 1973;Academic Press, New York & London. (F.I.D. Publ. no. 492).
111. Staber P. Bibliothekswissenschaft, Informationswissenschaft und Gesellschaft: eine Polemik. Zentralblatt fur Bibliothekswesen. 92:(1):1978;23-29. (Title in English: Library science, information science and society: a controversial discussion).
112. Steiger R. Zu philosophisch-weltanschaulichen Fragen der Informationssprachen. Informatik. 20:1973;52-55.
113. Strong G.W. Adaptive systems: the study of information, pattern and behavior. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 33:(6):1982;400-406.
114. Svenonius E., Witthus R. Information science as a profession. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. 16:1981;291-316.
115. Swanson D.R. Information retrieval as a trial-and-error process. Library Quarterly. 47:(2):1977;. (Here cited from: B. C. Griffith (Ed.), Key papers in information science (pp. 328-348). New York: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1980.).
116. Thompson M. Categories. Edwards P. The encyclopedia of philosophy. vol. 2:1967;47-55 Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. & The Free Press, New York.
117. Thornhill C. Historicism. Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy, version 1.0. vol. 4:1998;443-446 Routledge, London.
118. Tuominen K., Savolainen R. A social constructionist approach to the study of information use as discursive action. Information seeking in context. Vakkari P., Savolainen R., Dervin B. Proceedings of an international conference on research in information needs, seeking and use in different contexts, 14-16 August 1996, Tampere, Finland. 1997;Taylor Graham, London.
119. Unisist, (1971). Study Report on the feasibility of a World Science Information System. By the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the International Council of Scientific Unions. Paris, Unesco.
120. Warner A.J. Quantitative and qualitative assessments of the impact of linguistic theory on information science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 42:(1):1991;64-71.
121. Wersig G. Information theory. Feather J., Sturges P. International encyclopedia of library and information science. 1996;220-227 Routledge, London & New York.
122. Whitley R.D. The intellectual and social organisation of the sciences. 1984;Clarendon, Oxford.
123. Winograd T., Flores F. Understanding computers and cognition: A new foundation for design. 1987;Addison-Wesley, New York.
124. Woledge G. Bibliography and documentation - words and ideas. Journal of Documentation. 39:(4):1983;266-279.