Aware and Responsible Papers of the

This is a collection of papers from a colloquium held in Finland in 2000 to explore ideas about the social and cultural foundations of library and information science. The contributors were from the Nordic countries predominantly with contributions from the UK and US also.

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1 Library and Information Science in Context: The Development of Scientific Fields and Their Relations to Professional Contexts

Fredrik Åström

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2 Every Discipline Needs a History: Information Management and the Early Information Society in Britain

Alistair Black

29

(20)

3 The Social Legitimacy of Library and Information Studies: Reconsidering the Institutional Paradigm

Joacim Hansson

49

(22)

4 Social and Cultural Awareness and Responsibility in Library, Information, and Documentation Studies

Birger Hjørland

71

(22)

5 Documentation in a Complementary Perspective

Niels Windfeld Lund

93

(10)

6 Information History, Library History, or History By and Large? Remarks on Recent Discussion on Library and Information History

Ilkka Mäkinen

103

(12)

7 Francis Bacon's Natural History and Problems of the Communication of Scientific Knowledge

W. Boyd Rayward

115

(26)

8 Hermeneutics of Metadocumentation and Librarianship

Vesa Suominen

141

(28)

9 Reflections on Social and Cultural Awareness and Responsibility in Library, Information and Documentation-Commentary on the SCARLID Colloquium

Michael K. Buckland

169

(8)

About the Contributors

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Aware and Responsible Papers of the Nordic-International Colloquium on Social and Cultural Awareness and Responsibility in Library, Information and Documentation Studies (SCARLID)

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