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Download full textHeilprin, Laurence B. – 1972
The impact of cybernetics on information science occurs chiefly through the concepts of variety, the law of requisite variety, and theory of transformations. Through these it pervades every aspect of information science. However, other basic sciences such as physics, biology, psychology are in their spheres equally pervasive, and information…
Descriptors: Cybernetics, Information Science, Information Theory, Models
Peer reviewedHeilprin, Laurence B. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1995
Suggests a prospective area of study for future information scientists involving the separate causes of alimentary and informational action in order to bring the separate study of information science to a more central role within the sciences. Highlights include thermodynamics and open systems, and living organisms and other open systems.…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Information Science, Information Scientists, Thermodynamics
Peer reviewedHeilprin, Laurence B. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1988
Traces the history of the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), from the founding of the American Documentation Institute and National Science Foundation, through the founding of ARIST and its development. The future of the publication is also briefly discussed. (12 notes with references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Editors, History, Information Science, Professional Associations
Peer reviewedHeilprin, Laurence B. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1995
Discusses science and technology in the earliest historic prescience era, (circa 3500 BC), and from circa 1600 AD to the present, in order to consider the origins of information science and the role of information science in the future. Topics include logic and science, and deductive and inductive logic. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Information Science, Logic, Scientific and Technical Information
Heilprin, Laurence B. – 1973
Search for an integrated, comprehensive theory of information science (IS) has so far been unsuccessful. Appearance of a theory has been retarded by one central constraint, the large number of disciplines concerned with human communication. Crossdisciplinary interdependence occurs in two ways: theoretical relation of IS phenomena to a given…
Descriptors: Cybernetics, Information Dissemination, Information Science, Information Systems
Heilprin, Laurence B. – 1972
The literature of knowledge is a very large system in the cybernetic sense of intractibility to control. Improving access to it needs some simplifying theory. A step in this direction is a hypothesis constructed from basic concepts. These include cybernetic concepts of variety and requisite variety; a version of the mathematical concept of…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Cybernetics, Humanities, Information Science
Peer reviewedHeilprin, Laurence B. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1991
Examines the community of libraries and library schools for the probability of its long-term survival in its present form. Evolutionary rates are considered, essential functions now performed by the library community are described, and two new functions are recommended for future survival: (1) research leadership in information science, and (2)…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Evolution, Futures (of Society), Information Science
