Special topic issue ofJASIS: Information Science at the Millennium

✍ Scribed by Brooks, Terrence A.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 18 KB
• Volume: 50
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-8231
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(1999)50:8<733::aid-asi15>3.0.co;2-7

✦ Synopsis

What are the forces shaping the science of information as we step into the twenty-first century? What information problems have information technology solved, and what problems have been introduced by information technology? How has information technology redefined familiar information objects such as documents, books, and libraries? How has information technology modified familiar acts such as reading and writing? What decisions and standards are we creating now that will influence information structures, sharing, storage, and retrieval in the twenty-first century?