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The International Encyclopedia of Information and Library Scienceprovides vital information for all those involved in the study or practice of librarianship and information work. Library and Information Science (LIS) covers all aspects of the organization and management of information, information media and the institutions through which information is provided. This Encyclopediais a guide to the concepts, topics and terminology of this established but changing discipline. It gives the user comprehensive coverage of the field combined with expert analysis by some of the leading academics and practitioners.
The Encyclopediaaddresses the primary concerns of LIS, and considers all related areas. Its coverage is wide-ranging, from services for the visually impaired to library provision in the Caribbean and is written by a team of experts from across the world, including contributors from Australia, India, Jamaica, Nigeria and Norway. Some entries deal specifically with international bodies or issues (for example, UNESCOor Trans-Border Data Flow), and pay special attention to divergences of linguistic usage.

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• Abstract
• Abstracting and indexing services
• Academic libraries
• Accessions
• Accreditation of LIS schools
• Acquisitions
• Advice service
• Africa
• Agricultural documentation and information
• Aid agencies
• Algorithm
• Almanac
• Alphabetisation rules
• American Library Association
• Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
• Anomalous state of knowledge
• Archival description
• Archival library
• Archives
• Archivist
• Art galleries
• Art libraries
• Artefact
• Artificial intelligence
• Association for Computing Machinery
• Atlas
• Author
• Authoring systems
• Authority file
• Barcode
• Barefoot librarian
• Baud rate
• Berne Convention
• Besterman, Theodore (1904-76)
• Bibliographic classification
• Bibliographic control
• Bibliographic description
• Bibliographic instruction
• Bibliography
• Bibliomania
• Bibliometrics
• BibliothTque Nationale de France
• Bibliotherapy
• Bodley, Sir Thomas (1545-1613)
• Book
• Book club
• Book design
• Book fair
• Book jobber
• Book production
• Book selection
• Book trade
• Boolean logic
• Bowers, Fredson Thayer (1905-93)
• Box libraries
• Bradford, Samuel Clement (1878-1948)
• Bray, Thomas (1656-1730)
• British Library
• Broadcasting
• Browsing
• Buddhist libraries
• Bulletin board
• Bush, Vannevar (1890-1974)
• Business information service
• Byte
• Cable television
• Caribbean
• Carnegie, Andrew (1835-1919)
• Catalogues
• Categorisation
• Categorisation of fiction
• CD-ROM
• Censorship
• Central and Eastern Europe
• Chain indexing
• Chaos theory
• Children's libraries
• Children's literature
• Cinema
• Circulating library
• Circulation system
• Citation analysis
• Classification
• Closed access
• Code of professional conduct
• Coden
• Cognitive science
• Collection
• Collection development
• Collection management
• Colon classification
• Commonwealth Library Association (COMLA)
• Communication
• Communications audit
• Community information
• Community librarianship
• Competitor intelligence
• Computer
• Computer crime
• Computer science
• Computer security
• Computer-assisted learning in library and information science
• Concordance
• Conservation
• Consolidation of information
• Conspectus
• Consultancy
• Continuing professional development
• Contracts for information provision
• Convergence
• Cooperative cataloguing
• Copyright
• Crime in libraries
• Cultural agencies
• Cultural industries
• Current awareness
• Current contents list
• Cutter, Charles Ammi (1837-1903)
• Cybernetics
• Data
• Data archives
• Data bank
• Data compression
• Data Encryption Standard
• Data protection
• Data security
• Database
• Database-management systems (DBMS)
• Decision support systems (DSS)
• Defamation
• Desktop computer
• Desktop publishing (DTP)
• Dewey decimal classification
• Dewey, Melvil (1857-1931)
• Dialog
• Dictionary
• Digital libraries [electronic libraries in 1/e]
• Digitisation
• Diplomatic
• Directory
• Disaster-preparedness planning
• Discography
• Dissemination of information
• Distance learning
• Document
• Document clustering
• Document delivery systems
• Document image processing
• Documentation
• Donations to libraries
• East Asia
• Eastern Europe
• Eblida
• Ecclesiastical libraries
• Economics of information
• Eighteenth-Century Short-Title Catalogue
• Electrocopying
• Electronic book
• Electronic data interchange
• Electronic document delivery
• Electronic funds transfer
• Electronic journal archives
• Electronic mail
• Electronic public information
• Encryption
• Encyclopedia
• Enumerative bibliography
• Ephemera
• Epistemology
• Espionage
• Ethernet
• European Union information policies
• Evidence-based healthcare
• Exchange programmes
• Expert systems
• Faceted classification
• Farradane, Jason (1906-89)
• Fax
• Fee-based services
• Fibre optics
• Fiction
• File transfer protocol
• Film
• Finding aid
• Fisher, Sir Ronald Aylmer (1890-1962)
• Fixed location
• Floppy disk
• Fonds
• Forgery
• Free net
• Free text searching
• Freedom of information
• Friends of the library
• Fuzzy logic
• Gadamer, Hans-Georg (1900-)
• Garfield, Eugene (1925-)
• Gatekeeper
• Gateway
• Gazetteer
• Geographic Information Systems
• Gesner, Conrad (1516-65)
• Gigabyte
• Gopher
• Government publishing
• Grap

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Library Journal Review

To some librarians, the field of information science always comes second to library science, as in "library and information science." However, the juxtaposition of terms in this work's title sets the tone for a long overdue volume that complements the World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (Professional Reading, LJ 2/15/94) by finally allowing information science its say. Editors Feather (co-author of Preservation Management: Policies and Practices in British Libraries, Ashgate, 1996) and Sturges (author of The Quiet Struggle: Libraries and Information for Africa, Cassell Academic, 1990) have arranged their entries alphabetically; topics include the different aspects of library services in defined regions of the world and portraits of luminaries from the profession. The main focus, however, is on information science, offering detailed, signed articles on subjects such as "communication" and "information management." These articles are easily accessible to the less-initiated, with extensive reference and reading lists for those interested in delving further. The essay on communication, for example, begins with an exegesis of the Shannon-Weaver telecommunications theory of 1949 and ends in a discussion on the different types of communication. This excellent primer on the mechanics of information is highly recommended for information science and library school collections.‘John J. Doherty, Montana State Univ. Libs., Bozeman (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

Based on the first edition (1997), this edition has been updated and contains many new entries. Entries cover major issues, theories, activities, key terms, biographies, and organizations in library and information science; new entries update information on automation, expand geographic coverage, and discuss emerging issues that affect information work. Approximately 150 international specialists contributed nearly 600 entries. The entries--brief definitions, short articles, and major articles--are alphabetically arranged and vary in length from two sentences to four pages or more. Articles are signed, cross-referenced, and contain both references and further reading lists. Twelve major articles serve as a thematic foundation, encompassing issues from communication to organization of knowledge. Editorial judgments have been made on the relative significance of each topic and its length set accordingly; for example, publishing as a subject receives little coverage. This concise encyclopedia differs from the lengthy Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (73v., 1968-2003), whose contents are article based and partially outdated. Very useful for library and information studies. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Academic and larger public libraries. B. Anderson Northern Illinois University

Booklist Review

The world of information and library science is changing, so it makes sense to update the 1997 edition of this reference work. As the title indicates, the volume seeks to include a world perspective and focuses on present practice and research. Although it does include an entry for each continent, it is largely British in nature. Of the approximately 200 contributors, about 80 percent are associated with the UK. Articles are arranged alphabetically and vary from a paragraph to 19 pages. About half of the articles are signed and include short bibliographies. The editors do not claim to give equal treatment to all subjects but intend to provide longer articles for topics of greater importance. Therefore, it seems surprising that rare book libraries would get more coverage than public libraries or school libraries. Twelve major articles (about eight pages each) form the backbone of the volume: Communication,0 Economics of information, Informatics, Information management, Information policy, Information professions, Information society, Information systems, Information theory, Knowledge industries, Knowledge management0 , and Organization of knowledge.0 These entries demonstrate a theoretical and managerial approach. In contrast, the entry for Book0 is one-third of a page, and there is no mention of genres or young adult literature. Indeed, youth resources and services are underrepresented. Biographical entries are also disappointingly few in number. Twenty black-and-white diagrams and 17 tables complement the text. This volume offers an alternative to U.S.-centric librarianship. However, it does not offer a robust picture of the world but rather starts with a British perspective and branches out. Still, the conceptual articles are valuable, and readers interested in librarianship will find succinct definitions for many professional terms. This work will probably find its home in library and information studies collections. -- RBB Copyright 2003 Booklist

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

John Feather is currently Dean of the School of Education and Humanities at Loughborough University, where he is Professor of Library and Information Studies. He is the author of several books and many journal articles, including Dictionary of Book History(Routledge, 1991), History of British Publishing(Routledge, 1988) and The Preservation and Management of Library Collections(Library Association, 1991).
Paul Sturges is the author of Review of British Library Research and Development Department Research on Humanities Information(British Library, 1990)