Guide Note: Information Science is a discipline related to the processes of collecting, storing, transferring and manipulating information. It is an interdisciplinary field that includes computer science, library science, linguistics, cognitive sciences and others.
Fast Facts:
- Related field: Informatics
- Focused research started in 19th Century
- Automatization started increasing in the 1950's
- 5 Major Contributions:
- Bibliometrics, field that studies what has been published
- Handling of the information explosion
- Information storage and retrieval systems
- Studies of users' information needs
- National information policies