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Saracevic, Tefko – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1999
Presents personal analysis of information science as a field of scientific inquiry and professional practice that has evolved over the past half-century. Examines origin of information science in respect to problems of the information explosion, social role of field, nature of "information," structure of field in terms of problems addressed,…
Descriptors: Computer Science, Information Industry, Information Retrieval, Information Science