The report is the result of a study of the language of information science based on the terminology contained in a collected set of lexical resources. The terms employed were taken from vocabularies having a substantial degree of overlap. All terms were then analyzed to build a composite vocabulary of terms and concepts using a set of twenty-five…

The Delphi technique was utilized to poll AALS members regarding future trends, including development of communication links for businesses, hospitals, libraries, government, and universities; use of central data storage facilities with public access for information retrieval; and production and distribution of information as it increases in…

Knowledge is an integrated whole and we need to avoid the unfortunate lack of communication and interaction that invariably follow compartmentalization. The key to the ideal, a humanistic information scientist, lies in a liberal education of which the humanities are an integral part. (21 references) (MES)

Clarifies the idea of information by dividing the range of definitions into different parts and identifying several points of misunderstanding. The discussion covers the sciences relating to the concept of information; the nomenclatures of informatics, informatology, information science, and information sciences; and the multidimensional…

The recipient of the 1987 Award of Merit recalls his initial work in information research, and discusses the current and future status of information science and the functions of information professionals. (CLB)

Presents analysis of papers and articles by teachers and research students of library science schools, professional librarians, and others which were submitted from 1971 to 1982 to 19 English language library and information science periodicals published in India. Classification of articles, chronological split, and subject scatter are discussed.…

Four empirical laws of bibliometrics--anomalous number, Lotka's, Zipf's, and Bradford's--together with Laplace's "law of succession" and de Solla Price's cumulative advantage distribution are shown to be almost identical. A simple model shows that the frequency forms conform with inverse square law over appropriate interval. (Fifteen…

This essay distinguishes several different kinds of measures of information from each other, noting that differences between them show that our pretheoretical concept of information is multiply ambiguous. Incremental information, conditional information, transmitted information, expected information, and deductive information are discussed. Ten…

(A related article is LI 502 879.) (2 references)

(A related article is LI 502 878.)

A review of Computer Assisted Counseling" (Teachers College Press), by Donald E. Super, et al. (RY)

Using sociometric techniques, an informal communication network is identified which includes 73 percent of the scientists. Information transferred to these scientists is so situated that it could be transmitted to 95 percent of the network scientists through one intermediary scientist or less. (23 references) (Author)

A brief survey of training courses for users of documentation in various parts of the world, describing the programs of training and teaching methods is presented. (Author)