Session 1: Historical Perspectives on Information Technology
Moderator: Trudi Bellardo Hahn
Session description: This session drew upon a range of sources (from economic history, the history of copyright, from fictional representations, and from the history of library and information studies) to examine and present different understandings of information technology and of information infrastructure. It aimed to demonstrate the relevance of history to understanding and influencing current developments.
Paper 1. Title: What Should We Understand by Information Technology (and Some Hints at Other Questions)?
Author: Julian Warner
Paper 2. Title: How Popular Culture Shapes Our Perception and Reception of Information Technologies.
Author: Cheryl Malone
Paper 3. Title: Irony or Necessity: The Great Society, the Information Economy and the NCLIS
Author: Colin B. Burke
Session 2: Historical Perspectives on Knowledge Dissemination
Moderator: Julian Warner
Session description: The session was concerned with contrasting approaches to information storage, retrieval and dissemination, covering a range of historical periods and disciplines. It reexamined some of the widely acknowledge antecedents of modern information science (for instance, Bradford and Lotka) and its less well-known medieval precursors.
Paper 1. Title: The Medieval Intellectual Foundations of Modern Information Science.
Author: Lawrence J. McCrank
Paper 2. Title: The Probability Structure of Human Knowledge: A Historical and Practitioner Viewpoint.
Author: Stephen J. Bensman Ph.D.
Paper 3: Title: From Revolution to Orthodoxy: A History of the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science
Author: Mikel Breitenstein
Paper 4. Title: ISI's Activities in the Chemical Information Area
Author: Eugene Garfield (and others)
Session 3: Fifty Years of JASIS; Perspectives on Publishing in Information Science
Moderator: Trudi Bellardo Hahn
Session description: This session began with a short historical studies of JASIS over the past 50 years that highlight some of the changes in the publishing patterns of our field. The rest of the session featured a panel of three editors in the field who discussed publishing issues, past and current and past.
Paper 1. Title: Defining What Information Science is or Should Be: A Survey and Review of a Half-Century of Published Pronouncements
Author: Ben Lipetz
Panel Discussion: Fifty Years of JASIS and IS Publishing: the Editors' Perspectives
Speakers:
Donald H. Kraft
Charles T. Meadow
Tefko Saracevic
For more information contact: Dr.
Thomas Froehlich.
Comments may be sent to: tfroehli@kent.edu