Frontmatter -- Contents -- Frontispiece -- Chapter 1. Information science: emergence and scope -- Chapter 2. A social approach to information -- Chapter 3. Wider contexts of information transfer -- Chapter 4. People and information -- Chapter 5. Information retrieval -- Chapter 6. Semantics and retrieval -- Chapter 7. Intermediaries and interfaces -- Chapter 8. Information systems -- Chapter 9. The evaluation of systems -- Chapter 10. The Internet and information science -- Backmatter

Zusammenfassung

"Tous y trouveront un matériau riche pour acquérir ou consolider une culture professionnelle nécessaire...." (Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France, Paris, No. 5, 2004)

"... ist dieses Lehrbuch nicht nur ein Klassiker, sondern gibt unverändert einen Überblick über das Fach, wie es ihn in der deutschsprachigen Informationswissenschaft bisher nicht gegeben hat." (BIBLIOTHEK Forschung und Praxis, München, Nr. 2, 2005)

"This book deserves a place on the shelf of those who teach and practice scholarship in the information sciences, as it provides an account - at times personal and idiosyncratic - of the nature of the subject by an author who made great contributions its development. It can rightly continue to be regarded as a classic. It should also be of value to researchers, who may well find inspiration and new ideas from the wealth of detailed examples and commentary presented. (Journal of Documentation, West Yorkshire, Nr. 5, 2005)