ABSTRACT

Available in print or as an online subscription, this third edition of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences reflects the growing convergence among the several disciplines that concern themselves with information and the cultural record. Covered are archives, museum studies, informatics, information systems, knowledge management, records management, document and genre theory, bibliography, and social studies of information, in addition to library and information science. It addresses these related disciplines in a way that demonstrates the unities across the fields while also recognizing their uniquely distinguishing characteristics.

Composed of the contributions of major researchers and practitioners and exploring the cultural institutions of more than 30 countries, this major reference presents hundreds of entries extensively reviewed for accuracy.  Containing more than 70 percent new material, this edition also includes classic articles of historical or theoretical importance from prior editions.

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chapter |4 pages

Accessibility

chapter

Altmetrics

chapter |6 pages

Approval Plans

chapter |6 pages

Archival Documentation

chapter |7 pages

Archival Finding Aids

chapter |17 pages

Archival Reference and Access

chapter |13 pages

Archival Science

chapter |16 pages

Archives

chapter |13 pages

Archivists and Collecting

chapter |7 pages

ARMA International, Inc.

chapter |8 pages

Art Galleries

chapter |10 pages

Art Librarianship

chapter |10 pages

Art Museums

chapter |10 pages

Artificial Intelligence

chapter |8 pages

Arts Literatures and Their Users

chapter |10 pages

Automated Acquisitions

chapter |10 pages

Automatic Discourse Generation

chapter |7 pages

Back-of-the-Book Indexing

chapter |5 pages

Belarus: Libraries

chapter |9 pages

Bibliographic Control

chapter |4 pages

Bibliographic Utilities

chapter |12 pages

Bibliography

chapter |15 pages

Binding [ELIS Classic]

chapter |6 pages

Brazil: Part II Library Science

chapter |10 pages

British Library

chapter |6 pages

Business Informatics

chapter |4 pages

Cabinets of Curiosities

chapter |20 pages

Canada: Libraries and Archives

chapter |10 pages

Cataloging

chapter |19 pages

CD-ROM in Libraries

chapter |10 pages

Chemoinformatics

chapter |12 pages

Children and Information Technology

chapter |24 pages

Children's Literature

chapter |15 pages

Citation Analysis

chapter |16 pages

Classification Theory

chapter |9 pages

Clinical Decision-Support Systems

chapter |11 pages

Collection Management in Museums

chapter |12 pages

Collection Management Systems

chapter |11 pages

College Libraries

chapter |11 pages

Colon Classification (CC)

chapter |6 pages

Competitive Intelligence

chapter |5 pages

Corporate Archives

chapter |8 pages

Corporate Art Collections

chapter |8 pages

Cultural Memory

chapter |9 pages

Curating Archeological Artifacts

chapter |7 pages

Cybernetics

chapter |8 pages

Cyberspace Law

chapter |9 pages

Data Transmission Protocols

chapter |8 pages

Decision Sciences

chapter |10 pages

Digital Archiving

chapter |6 pages

Digital Divide

chapter |12 pages

Digital Humanities

chapter |8 pages

Digital Images

chapter |9 pages

Diplomatics

chapter |12 pages

Document Information Systems

chapter |8 pages

Document Theory

chapter |4 pages

EDUCAUSE

chapter |8 pages

Epistemology

chapter |7 pages

Evidence-Based Practice

chapter |11 pages

Exhibition Design

chapter |5 pages

Film Archiving: History

chapter |9 pages

Folksonomies

chapter |5 pages

Greece: Part II Archives

chapter |5 pages

Greece: Part III Museums

chapter |11 pages

Grey Literature

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HathiTrust

chapter |7 pages

Historical Societies

chapter |11 pages

History of Museums

chapter |12 pages

History of Paper

chapter |6 pages

History of the Book

chapter |5 pages

Homework Centers

chapter |25 pages

Hospital Libraries

chapter |13 pages

Illumination [ELIS Classic]

chapter |14 pages

Information

chapter |12 pages

Information Arts

chapter |11 pages

Information Behavior

chapter |9 pages

Information Behavior Models

chapter |5 pages

Information Explosion

chapter |8 pages

Information Literacy

chapter |7 pages

Information Management

chapter |12 pages

Information Overload

chapter |7 pages

Information Practice

chapter |11 pages

Information Retrieval Systems

chapter |16 pages

Information Science

chapter |19 pages

Information Society

chapter |8 pages

Information Systems

chapter |13 pages

Information Technology Adoption

chapter |10 pages

Information Theory

chapter |12 pages

Information Visualization

chapter |8 pages

Informetric Laws

chapter |10 pages

Informetrics

chapter |12 pages

Institutional Repositories

chapter |7 pages

Instructional Technology

chapter |4 pages

Intangible Heritage

chapter |11 pages

Internet Archive

chapter |13 pages

Internet Genres

chapter |7 pages

InterPARES

chapter |5 pages

Intranets

chapter |6 pages

iSchools

chapter |7 pages

JSTOR

chapter |8 pages

Knowledge

chapter |10 pages

Knowledge Management

chapter |8 pages

Knowledge Management Models

chapter |8 pages

Knowledge Management Systems

chapter |8 pages

Knowledge Sharing Mechanisms

chapter |11 pages

Knowledge: Tacit and Explicit

chapter |17 pages

Law Literature and Its Users

chapter |6 pages

Libraries

chapter |6 pages

Library Anxiety

chapter |12 pages

Library Automation: History

chapter |10 pages

Library Consortia in Europe

chapter |8 pages

Library Management

chapter |12 pages

Library of Congress: 21st Century

chapter |13 pages

Library of Congress: History

chapter |9 pages

Library Portals and Gateways

chapter

Linked Data

chapter |13 pages

Literacy

chapter |5 pages

Louvre

chapter |10 pages

Markup Languages

chapter |11 pages

Moving Image Indexing

chapter |9 pages

Museum Informatics

chapter |13 pages

Museum Management

chapter |8 pages

Museum Studies

chapter |9 pages

Museums

chapter |8 pages

Museums and Community

chapter |9 pages

Museums as Place

chapter |8 pages

National Archives

chapter |14 pages

National Libraries

chapter |9 pages

Network Management

chapter |9 pages

One-Person Libraries

chapter |18 pages

Online Library Instruction

chapter |6 pages

Open Source Software

chapter |7 pages

Orality

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ORCID

chapter |10 pages

Organization Theories

chapter |6 pages

Organizational Culture

chapter |9 pages

Organizational Learning

chapter |8 pages

Papyrology

chapter |13 pages

Patents and Patent Searching

chapter |14 pages

Piracy in Digital Media

chapter |9 pages

Popular Literature Genres

chapter |21 pages

PRECIS [ELIS Classic]

chapter |5 pages

Presidential Libraries

chapter |9 pages

Provenance of Museum Objects

chapter |7 pages

Provenance of Rare Books

chapter |20 pages

Public Libraries

chapter |8 pages

Publishing Studies

chapter |10 pages

Rare Book Collections

chapter |10 pages

Reading and Reading Acquisition

chapter |9 pages

Reading Disorders

chapter |10 pages

Reading Interests

chapter |5 pages

Records Organization and Access

chapter |5 pages

Records Retention Schedules

chapter |11 pages

Reference and Informational Genres

chapter |7 pages

Reference Services

chapter |14 pages

Relevance in Theory

chapter |6 pages

Reprography in Libraries

chapter |9 pages

Rhetoric

chapter |8 pages

School Librarianship

chapter |7 pages

School Libraries

chapter |9 pages

Science and Technology Studies

chapter |17 pages

Search Engine Optimization

chapter |8 pages

Search Engines

chapter |14 pages

Semantic Web

chapter |10 pages

Semiotics

chapter |12 pages

Sense-Making

chapter |11 pages

Serials Collection and Management

chapter |8 pages

Serials Vendors

chapter |6 pages

Shared Libraries

chapter |8 pages

Smithsonian Institution

chapter |7 pages

Social Epistemology

chapter |6 pages

Social Informatics

chapter |7 pages

Sociology of Reading

chapter |8 pages

Sound and Audio Archives

chapter |10 pages

Special Librarianship

chapter |9 pages

Special Libraries

chapter |5 pages

Specialty Museums

chapter |8 pages

State Archives

chapter |10 pages

Still Image Indexing

chapter |5 pages

Storytelling

chapter |14 pages

SYNTOL [ELIS Classic]

chapter |10 pages

Taxonomy

chapter |7 pages

Technical Writing

chapter |11 pages

Telecommunications

chapter |5 pages

Test Collections

chapter |9 pages

Thesaurus Management Software

chapter |13 pages

Topic Maps

chapter |7 pages

Ukraine: Libraries

chapter |12 pages

Uncertainty

chapter |10 pages

Unicode Standard

chapter |6 pages

University Archives

chapter |6 pages

Version Control

chapter |8 pages

Visitor Studies

chapter |22 pages

Wayfinding and Signage

chapter |11 pages

Web Social Mining

chapter |10 pages

Webometrics

chapter |6 pages

WordNet

chapter |14 pages

Work of Art

chapter |9 pages

World Wide Web (WWW)

chapter |13 pages

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