Foundations of Library and Information Science

摘要

The compass of Library and Information Science (LIS) has changed significantly in the last fifty years. This change has moved in tandem with the increased power of computers, the emergence the Internet and subsequently the WWW. Historically libraries have had a central role in the community as a repository of information and as a place both to pursue education and refine knowledge. Libraries now find themselves part of a "complex and dynamic educational, recreational and informational infrastructure, p. 1". This accompanies a social infrastructure which "demands that LIS professionals understand how knowledge and information are created,