1995 Annual Meeting Activities

1995 Annual Meeting SIG/HFIS Session Descriptions

There are intermittent complaints that Information Science lacks theory. The purpose of this session is to provide a forum and showcase for theoretical work within Information Science. Three theoretical papers will be presented: on composition studies and information science; on exactness in speech, writing and computing; and on the inherent deficiencies of a cognitive approach to IR.

Birger Hjorland, Royal School of Librarianship, Denmark
Julian Warner, Queens University, Northern Ireland
Soren Brier, Royal School of Librarianship, Denmark 

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This session is an exploration of specific influences that IIB/FID has had on the intellectual and historical development of documentation and information science over the past 100 years. Separate registration and fee are not required for this seminar.

W. Boyd Rayward, Univ. of New South Wales, "The Institut International de Bibliographie as an Expression of key ideas for the History of Information Science"
Irene Farkas-Conn, Arthur L. Conn and Associates, Ltd., "Watson Davis, the FID and ADI"
Francis L. Miksa, Univ. of Texas at Austin, "The Influence of the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC)"
Michael Buckland, Univ. of California, Berkeley, "Document in Documentation"
Robert V. Williams, Univ. of South Carolina, "The Influence of IIB/FID on the Special Libraries Movement in the U.S."

Steven MacCall, Univ. of North Texas, Moderator

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