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ERIC Number: EJ550774
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1997
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The Origins of Information Science and the International Institute of Bibliography/International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID).
Rayward, W. Boyd
International Forum on Information and Documentation, v22 n2 p3-15 1997
Argues that many ideas and practices of information science, information technology, information retrieval, search strategies, information centers, fee-based information services, linked databases, database management software, scholarly communication networks, multimedia and hypertext, and information grew out of a new "discursive formation" (Foucault) called "documentation" created by the International Institute of Bibliography (later FID) in 1895. (PEN)
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Language: English
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