本英文情报学新教材

武夷山

情报学教材很难写，故不多见。2012年，英国Facet Publishing出版了伦敦城市大学情报学教授David Bawden和同校的图书情报学项目主任Lyn Robinson博士合写的教材Introduction to Information Science（情报学导论），该书问世后获得不少好评。下面将该书目录与大家分享一下，可以看出，该书至少做到了全面（信息组织、信息技术、信息行为、信息计量学、信息传播、信息政策、信息素养等，所有主题无不囊括）和新鲜（例如，介绍了弗洛伊迪的信息哲学，而我以前见过的教材很少提及弗洛伊迪）。

David Bawden是很优秀的学者，他2001年就信息素养和数字素养概念发表的一篇综述评论已被引用500多次。估计Lyn Robinson是David Bawden带出来的博士，她与David Bawden合著过多篇论文。

Contents

List of figures..................................................................................xi

Preface...........................................................................................xiii

Forewords.......................................................................................xv

Information science and 21st century information practices:

creatively engaging with information

Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson ..........................................................xv

The emerging discipline of information Andrew Dillon .............xvii

The scope of information science Jonathan Furner .....................xix

A fascinating field and a pragmatic enterprise Birger Hjørland .xxi

A slippery and ubiquitous concept Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan ......xxiii

The future of information science Maja Žumer ..........................xxiv

List ofacronyms.........................................................................xxvii

1 What is information science? Disciplines and

professions ...............................................................................1

Introduction........................................................................................2

The nature ofinformation science ....................................................2

What kind of discipline is information science? ...............................4

Constituents and core........................................................................5

Other information disciplines ............................................................6

The uniqueness of information science ............................................8

History of information science...........................................................8

Summary...........................................................................................12

Key readings.....................................................................................13

References.........................................................................................13

2 History of information: the story ofdocuments.................19

Introduction......................................................................................19

Information ages?............................................................................21

Prehistory and the ancient world....................................................21

The classical and medieval worlds ...................................................24

The age of print................................................................................27

The 19th century...............................................................................28

The 20th century...............................................................................29

Summary...........................................................................................31

Key readings.....................................................................................32

References.........................................................................................32

3 Philosophies and paradigms of information science .........37

Introduction......................................................................................37

Philosophy and the information sciences .......................................38

Philosophical positions.....................................................................39

Paradigms and turns.........................................................................42

Philosophers and information science ............................................47

Karl Popper and objective epistemology ........................................49

Jesse Shera and social epistemology ...............................................50

Luciano floridi and the philosophy of information .......................53

Summary ...........................................................................................55

Key readings.....................................................................................56

Philosophy resources........................................................................56

References.........................................................................................56

4 Basic concepts of information science.................................63

Introduction......................................................................................63

Information and knowledge............................................................64

Information: physical,biological, social ..........................................65

a mathematical theory of information, with a little semiotics .....67

Information for information science...............................................71

Knowledge for information science................................................73

Documents........................................................................................75

Collections.........................................................................................78

Relevance and aboutness.................................................................80

Information use and users ...............................................................82

Summary...........................................................................................83

Key readings.....................................................................................84

References.........................................................................................84

5 Domain analysis.....................................................................91

Introduction......................................................................................91

Domain analysis as a theory for information science.....................91

What is a domain?............................................................................93

aspects of domain analysis ..............................................................94

Practical value of domain analysis.................................................100

examples of domain analysis .........................................................100

Domain analysis and the subject specialist ...................................101

Summary.........................................................................................102

Key readings ...................................................................................103

References.......................................................................................103

6 Information organization....................................................105

Introduction....................................................................................105

Controlled vocabulary and facet analysis .....................................106

Terminologies.................................................................................107

metadata.........................................................................................108

Resource description and cataloguing ..........................................110

Ontologies.......................................................................................114

Systematic vocabularies: classification and taxonomy .................114

alphabetic vocabularies: subject headings and thesauri .............120

abstracting......................................................................................121

Indexing and tagging.....................................................................123

Summary.........................................................................................125

Key readings...................................................................................126

References.......................................................................................126

7 Information technologies: creation,dissemination and

retrieval................................................................................131

Introduction....................................................................................131

What are information technologies? ............................................131

Digital technologies.......................................................................133

networks.........................................................................................137

mobile and pervasive.....................................................................138

Software..........................................................................................139

Interacting with computers ...........................................................141

Information systems,analysis, architecture and design...............142

applications....................................................................................143

Summary ........................................................................................157

Key readings...................................................................................157

References.......................................................................................158

8 Informetrics..........................................................................165

Introduction....................................................................................165

Historical development of informetrics ........................................166

How much information is there?...................................................170

The main informetricl aws .............................................................171

network theory..............................................................................174

applying informetrics.....................................................................175

Summary.........................................................................................180

Key readings...................................................................................180

References.......................................................................................181

9 Information behaviour ........................................................187

Introduction....................................................................................187

What is information behaviour? ...................................................188

Origins and development of information behaviour studies ......190

Theories and models......................................................................192

methods for studying information behaviour..............................199

Information behaviour of groups..................................................201

Individual information behaviour styles .......................................202

Summary: so what do we know?...................................................204

Key readings...................................................................................205

References.......................................................................................206

10 Communicating information: changing contexts .............211

Introduction....................................................................................211

Communication frameworks .........................................................212

Changing information lndscapes.................................................215

Digitizing the world of print .........................................................216

Changing economic models...........................................................219

Open access and repositories.........................................................220

new forms of communication .......................................................221

new forms of research and scholarship ........................................223

Information places and spaces.......................................................224

Summary.........................................................................................225

Key readings...................................................................................225

References.......................................................................................226

11 Information society.............................................................231

Introduction....................................................................................231

What is the information society? ..................................................231

frameworks for information society .............................................234

Information society infrastructures ...............................................241

Problems and divides within the information society..................243

Summary.........................................................................................245

Key readings...................................................................................246

References.......................................................................................246

12 Information management and policy................................251

Introduction....................................................................................251

Information management basics...................................................252

Contexts of information management .........................................254

Information governance and information risk.............................263

Information policies and strategies...............................................264

Information auditing and mapping ..............................................269

Valuing information.......................................................................269

Information for creativity and innovation....................................275

Summary.........................................................................................276

Key readings ...................................................................................277

References.......................................................................................277

13 Digital literacy......................................................................287

Introduction....................................................................................287

Information and computer literacies ............................................288

The information-literate person....................................................290

The concept of digital literacy .......................................................293

a model for digital literacy............................................................296

Importance of digital literacy ........................................................297

Promoting digital literacy ..............................................................298

Summary.........................................................................................300

Key readings...................................................................................300

References.......................................................................................301

14 Information science research: what and how?..................303

Introduction....................................................................................303

Styles of information research.......................................................304

General aspects of research methods............................................305

Research and the practitioner .......................................................306

Research methods for information science...................................307

Research methods –surveys...........................................................308

Research methods – experimenting, evaluating and observing..312

Research methods – desk research................................................316

Sampling.........................................................................................319

Information research ethics ...........................................................321

finding and evaluating research ...................................................321

Summary.........................................................................................322

Key readings...................................................................................324

References.......................................................................................324

15 The future of the information sciences..............................327

Introduction....................................................................................327

Predicting and prophesying...........................................................328

Drivers for change..........................................................................330

What lies ahead for information professions and disciplines......331

Information research agendas.......................................................333

The future of information science.................................................335

Summary.........................................................................................336

Key readings...................................................................................336

References.......................................................................................337

Additionalresources....................................................................339

Other textbooks..............................................................................339

Journals...........................................................................................340

abstracting and indexing services .................................................340

Reference sources...........................................................................340

Index.............................................................................................341