Document (#13033)

Author

Rayward, W.B.

Title

¬The history and historiography of information science : some reflections

Source

Information processing and management. 32(1996) no.1, S.3-17

Year

1996

Abstract

Examines some of the difficulties for the historian of information science that arises from the lack of of agreement as to what precisely constitutes information science and from its commonly accepted interdisciplinary nature. Examines in this connection Machlup and Mansfield's ideas about a narrow information science and information science as a composite of disciplinary chunks. The history of information science is gaining an identity both bibliographically and socially. As a condition of their organization, reproduction, and control all societies have evolved their own disctinctive ways of managing information. The history of information science can be considered to extend far beyond the last 50 years where attention is commonly focused. In view of Braudel's notations or duree longue, moyenne and courte, periodicity provides a new perspective for the history of information science. Introduces the notions of synchrony and diachrony to suggest other approaches to the historical study of aspects of information science

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