A very interesting article by Marcia Bates tracing the history of where library and information science fits into the academic disciplines…
Bring this out when someone asks if we’re ‘science’ or not. 😉
The information professions: knowledge, memory, heritage
http://www.informationr.net/ir/20-1/paper655.html#.VSBrBvnF-Sp
Marcia Bates
Department of Information Studies, University of California Los Angeles, 2320A Moore Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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