Bibliography of the History of Information Science in North America, 1900-1995

Williams, Robert V.; Whitmire, Laird; Bradley, Colleen

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“…Sobre as origens e evolução da CI, pode consultar-se os trabalhos de diversos autores, entre os quais se destacam: Vickery, 1994;Rayward, 1996Rayward, e 1997Williams, Whitmire, & Bradley, 1997;Le Coadic, 1997;Fayet-Scribe, 1997;Buckland & Hahn, 1997;Hapke, 1998;Bawden & Robinson, 2012. Em contraposição, nesta área científica não há jornais ou revistas que se dediquem, em exclusivo, à sua história; no entanto, assinalam--se como fontes relevantes para o este estudo o "Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science", o "Journal of the American Society for Information Science", o "Documentaliste" e o "Journal of Documentation". A "Encyclopedia of library and information Science" e o "Dictionnaire encyclopédique de l'information et de la documentation" (Cacaly, 1997), também devem ser mencionados neste contexto.…”

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Ciência da Informação e o Mercado de Trabalho na Era Digital

Paletta¹,

González²,

Vergueiro³

2020

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Looks upon the characteristics of the present time and the challenges it represents to Information Science in what regards to the impacts of the technology and to professional education, also discussing the information professional´s competences and abilities on knowledge organization. The values that should permeate the professional performance in the digital era are emphasized, with special attention to issues related to creativity and ethics. It finishes with a consideration about aspects of the professional education in the informational environment, taking in account the informational and digital competences, as well as the need of the education organizations to prepare themselves to properly answer to those changes, improving their processes of education by the incorporation of the demands and expectations both from the organizations as the work market. KEYWORDS – Information Science; Digital Era; Information professional; Work market; Information Ethics.

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Ciência da Informação e o Mercado de Trabalho na Era Digital

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González²,

Vergueiro³

2020

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“…There was, of course, interest in information science history and related subjects prior to the 1990s. More than a decade before the current group of academic and practitioner information history advocates began their work, historical articles on information theory, automated information retrieval, and information policy appeared in journals such as Libraries and Culture, Library Trends, The Annals of the History of Computing , and JASIS (Redmond, 1985; Williams, Whitmire, & Bradley, 1997). The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences also served as a source for historical information.…”

Section: Information History Before the 1990smentioning

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“…Like their North American counterparts, European and Asian professional journals published historical works before the mid‐1990s—typically written by information professionals who relied upon their own experiences, memories, and personally held documents (Williams, Whitmire, & Bradley, 1998).…”

Section: Information History Before the 1990smentioning

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“…By that time, ASIST had assisted in the creation of a database for information pioneers' biographies (http://www.libsci.sc.edu/bob/ISP/ISP.htm) and ARIST soon published its first historical chapter in more than a decade (Buckland & Liu, 1996). ASIST's encouragement also aided the effort to compile the first comprehensive bibliographies on the history of information, a project that continues to this day (Williams, 2005; Williams et al, 1998). In addition, the Chemical Heritage Foundation began plans to conduct what has become an invaluable series of oral history interviews with information pioneers.…”

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History of information science

Burke¹

2007

Annual Review Info Sci & Tec

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“…As befits the ethos and practice of information science, efforts have been made to provide wide access to information science history sources via the digital environment. Web sites have been constructed by Williams (2004) on pioneers of information science in North America and by Williams and LaMotte (2004) on bibliographic sources for the history of information science in the 20th century, also in North America. In addition, Williams and Bowden (2000) offer a chronology of chemical information science from the late 18th century on.…”

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Information history

Black

2006

Annual Review Info Sci & Tec

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More often than not, attempts to settle the semantics of information produce confusion instead of the desired clarity. The passage just quoted, for example, immediately invites speculation on the enduring dialectic between "information as process'' and "information as thing" (Buckland, 1991). Historical and etymological analysis of the word information can throw light on this tension, as well as provide, of course, a first example in this chapter of information history in action. The classical meaning of information revolved around information as an activity or happening (information as verb), our actions being "informed by the metaphysical or, from the Enlightenment onwards, by the hidden powers of reason (Peters, 1988). Bailey's A New Universal Etymological English Dictionary, published in 1775, defines information as "the act of informing or actuating." Derived from the Latin word informare (to instruct), it has a long history of being used in the sense of the receiving or giving of new knowledge about something. However, in recent centuries, and emphatically in recent decades, what has come to the fore is the notion of information as an item (information as noun)-a change of meaning wholly in keeping, of course, with the increased commercialization and commodification of information. The reification of information, the conversion of it from a processual concept into a "thing," implies that almost any aspect of human culture, material or otherwise, can be considered to have an information dynamic. Even in discourses where the "process7' definition of information receives support, there can be a tendency to emphasize-unhelpfully for our purposes, it might be suggested-the perceived universality of information, as in the case of the following statement:The concept of information science is based on the assumption that all organisms are information systems . . . . The information system is an environment of persons, machines, and procedures that augment [sic] human biological potential to acquire, process, and act upon data. (Debons, Horne, & Croneweth, 1988, pp. 8-9) All this leaves those attempting to theorize and formulate a discrete subject named "information history" with a difficult problem. If information itself defies precise definition, what chance is there that its definition might be historicized? There is a danger that information history, like information, can be conceptualized in such vague and heterogeneous ways that it is rendered unwieldy and thus unsuitable for the award of disciplinary status. A subject field that potentially accommo-

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Bibliography of the History of Information Science in North America, 1900-1995

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