Abstract
Information science has often been recognized as an interdisciplinary field. The marriage between librarianship/documentation and computer science was a natural development in the United States in the post-War period (Farkas-Conn, 1991; Hahn & Barlow, 2012), while the development of information science in Europe has largely stayed close to the humanities and the social sciences, in particular, in relation to communication and media (Ibekwe-SanJuan, et al., 2010). For many years, the interdisciplinary nature of information science has been applauded; until recently, we are warned that interdisciplinarinity may be harmful to the identity of the field. Buckland (2012) states that the claim of being "interdisciplinary" is to choose a position of weakness because "in times of economic crisis political power tends to reside in well-established disciplines." Cronin (2012) comments that "the field's sense of identity, arguably fragile at the best of times, is likely to be further weakened" for its "epistemic promiscuity."
| Original language | Undefined/Unknown |
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| Title of host publication | ASIST 2013 Proceedings of the 76th ASIS&T Annual Meeting Volume 50 2013 Beyond the Cloud : Rethinking Information Boundaries |
| Editors | A Grove |
| Publisher | Association for Information Science and Technology |
| Pages | – |
| ISBN (Print) | 0-87715-545-3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
| MoE publication type | A4 Article in a conference publication |
| Event | conference - Duration: 1 Jan 2013 → … |
Conference
| Conference | conference |
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| Period | 01/01/13 → … |