Efforts to define Information Science are a hardy perennial. As the debate continues, hundreds of papers on the history of the field have appeared (see Burke\u2018s 2007 metareview). We are not sure what Information Science is, but we\u2018re getting a grip on its history!<\/p>\n
There is greater consensus on the early history, from the antecedents of Library and Information Science through the \u2015golden years\u2016 of the 1950s through the 1970s. Burke writes, \u2015Hardly any publications have explored\u2026 the science of information or the information business after the mid-1970\u2018s.\u2016 In the late 1970s computer use began to dominate the way many people create, manage, and use information, adding theoretical and organizational complexity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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