Library science
Library Science & Information Science
Library science is a study of principles and practices of library care
and administration.
The Librarian’s Glossary (1971) defines library science as “The knowledge and skill concerned with the
administration of libraries and their contents; library economy and
bibliographical”
Library
economy:
Library economy means the practical application of
library science to founding, organizing and administery of libraries.
Information:
Information is an assemble of data in comprehensive
form, recorded on paper or some other medium and capable of communication.
The dictionary meaning of the term is knowledge,
intelligence, a fact, data, a message, a signal, a stimulus which is
transmitted by the act or process of communication.
On the other hand, data are raw materials. When they
are processed and converted into a meaningful, intelligible and useful form for
the users we called it information.
Information
Science:
Very simply, information science is a study of
recorded knowledge and its transfer in the wider sense.
C.K Sharma said, “It is an extension of library
science and expansion of reference service.”
According to V. Slemeka, “Information Science is
an inter-disciplinary field of study of the nature, properties, control and use
of information.
According to Robert J. Tylor, Information Science as
“The study and technology of processing information for optimum access ability
and use.”
American society for International Science (ASIS) in 1975
defined Information Science- “Information science is concerned with
the generation, collection, organization, transfer and use of information with
particular emphasis on the application of modern technologies in these areas.”
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