Information science practice in a historical perspective: Preliminary findings of an oral history project
✍ Scribed by Ellen Pozzi; Marija Dalbello
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 103 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0044-7870
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Oral history is a phenomenological method of historical inquiry. It is applied to the study of the organizational field of information science through interviews with members of the New Jersey chapter of the national information science organization )ASIST). Their views on the identity of the chapter and their own professional identity in that context, and on the development and maturation of information science field over the past thirty years are considered in the sociology of culture framework. This approach can open new directions for historical inquiry of information science in the national context, understanding the research / practice dynamics, and the institutionalization of information science field.