Library and Information Science

Abstract

Abstract Library and information science is the discipline that studies the information communication chain: all aspects of the creation, organization, management, communication, and use of recorded information. It supports the professional activities of the collection disciplines, including information management, librarianship, archiving, and records management. Its core areas include information behavior, information organization and metadata, information seeking, information retrieval, information architecture, information society, information law and ethics, information management and policy, bibliometrics, and library services. Library and information science is regarded as a metadiscipline, with a wide variety of applicable theories, philosophical bases, and research methods. The discipline is undergoing changes as it adapts to new forms of documents and collections, and to new information environments.