Redefines the scope of information science as the analysis, organization, dissemination, and application of objective knowledge. (Author/PF)

Proposes that university education for library and information professionals has become less autonomous in character and more systematized. A triangular model which describes a dynamic tension between professors, students, and the state is developed by further analysis of the state and higher education. Concludes that despite the pressures within…

A demonstration, evolved during the teaching of information science courses in graduate library schools, of how Fairthorne's theory can aid in systematizing the analysis and improvement of library operations. (Author/PF)

Addresses and supplements the historical portion of Alan Pritchard's article, "Statistical Bibliography or Bibliometrics?" which appeared in this journal in 1969. (VT)

The main topics considered over the period of this bulletin (September 1968 to September 1972) have been the classification of Library and Information Sciences, and the continuing problems of the principles required for a better comprehensive general classification. (2 references) (Author/NH)

Recent discussion of Bradford's law of scatter has been founded on two formulations that are not mathematically equivalent. A method of comparing the two formulations against empirical data is developed, and the results using four sets of existing data are discussed. (12 references) (Author/NH)

Analyzes and discuses some aspects concerning the historical and social context of information science and information institutions. Highlights include views of Jose Ortega y Gasset; changing conceptions of the structure, foci, and content of the discipline; prewar and postwar paradigms; the physical paradigm; and the cognitive view. (Contains 27…

Considers the meanings of the terms document, documentation, information, information retrieval, and information science. Discusses the theoretical orientations of the discipline and how they are linked to epistemological assumptions, as well as the concept of memory institutions. (Contains 38 references.) (Author/LRW)

A sampling theorem, based on the binomial probability distribution but otherwise distribution-free, is derived and some of its applications are illustrated numerically. (Author)

A critical survey of approaches to an information concept for information science, with one or more examples of each approach, is discussed in some detail. (VT)

Discusses the relationship and value of semiotics to the established domains of information science. Highlights include documentation; computer operations; the language of computing; automata theory; linguistics; speech and writing; and the written language as a unifying principle for the document and the computer. (93 references) (LRW)

Information extraction (IE) is the extraction and recording of information about a prespecified set of entities, relations, or events from natural language texts in structured representations called templates. This article provides an overview of IE from the 1960s to the present, discusses techniques, describes applications, and highlights future…

Develops a bibliometric profile of four information science journals; analyzes data on acknowledgments to funding sources, authors' nationalities, and the citedness of published articles; and explores the relationships among these variables. Citedness appears to be associated with journal of publication and an author's nationality, but not with…

The nature of the affinitive relationships expressed through thesaural related terms were studied in ten thesauri and analyzed in terms of Farradane's relational indexing operators and the four fundamental categories of concepts derived by the Classification Research Group in England. (Author/LS)

The effectiveness and efficiency of five index languages in the subject area of library and information science are compared. Full details of the text and retrieval results are presented. (17 references) (Author/NH)