Library and Information Science

Abstract

Library and information science is the discipline which studies the information communication chain: all aspects of the creation, organization, management, communication and use of recorded information. It supports the professional activities of the collection disciplines, including information management, librarianship, archiving and records management. Its core areas include information behavior, information organization and metadata, information seeking, information retrieval, information architecture, information society, information law and ethics, information management and policy, bibliometrics and library services. Library and information science is regarded as a meta-discipline, with a wide variety of applicable theories, philosophical bases and research methods. The discipline is undergoing changes as it adapts to new forms of documents and collections, and to new information environments. Main textLibrary and information science (LIS) is the academic discipline which studies all aspects of the creation, organization, management, communication and use of recorded information. It underlies a variety of professional activities such as information management, librarianship, and archiving and records management, educating professionals for work in those areas, and carrying out research to improve practice.Librarianship, archiving and other practices dealing with recorded information have a history of thousands of years, but the origins of the LIS discipline are much more recent.