During the past decade, the scope of information science has been evolving into a broader but better defined area of specialization. In this paper several of the definitions of information science which have been suggested by various professional groups are discussed. The educational objectives of information science are identified, and the…

As many national communities transform their socio-economic environment to that of the information society, an examinination of the new discipline of informatics is outlined. (Author/BB)

Discusses three possible contributions of information science technology and techniques to health information from the perspective of the health information needs of various populations: (1) extraction of a specific report passage or sentence in machine-readable form; (2) development of controlled vocabularies and thesauri; and (3) development of…

This collection of 22 papers from the Conference on Information in the Language Sciences held in Warrenton, Va., in 1966, sponsored by the Center for Applied Linguistics, stresses three themes: general trends, information needs of the languages sciences, and system design. Discussions attempt to formulate modern rational approaches to the complex…