European Origins of Library and Information Science.

Front Cover -- European Origins of Library and Information Science -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- About the Author -- Scope and Aims of the Book -- I.1. A Word on the Data Gathering Methodology -- I.2. Caveats -- I.3. Perimeter -- Chapter 1 Emergence of LIS in France: A Tale of Academic Cohabitation and of Memory Loss -- 1.1. The Earliest Training Programmes in Librarianship -- 1.2. Eugène Morel, a Pioneer of Library Modernisation -- 1.3. The Heritage of Suzanne Briet, France's Madame Documentation -- 1.3.1. The Institutional and Historical Context Preceding Briet's Appearance -- 1.3.2. Suzanne Briet: Career at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France -- 1.3.3. Suzanne Briet: The Creation of the First Documentation Association and the INTD Years -- 1.3.4. Suzanne Briet: American Influence on French Documentation -- 1.3.5. The Lady and the Antelope. Briet's Semiotic Conception of Document -- 1.3.6. Briet's Documentalist as an Assistant to the Scientist and the Specialist -- 1.3.7. Suzanne Briet: Posthumous Recognition Outside France -- 1.4. From Documentation to Information Science -- 1.4.1. The Beginning of Mechanised Documentation -- 1.4.2. The Rivalry between Professional LIS Associations in France -- 1.4.3. The Emergence of Information Science and the Disconnect with Professional Associations in France -- 1.4.4. Impact of Governmental Policies on the Emergence of Information Science -- 1.4.5. The Birth of an Interdiscipline: Information and Communication Sciences -- 1.4.6. The First University Programmes in Information Science -- 1.4.7. The Research Landscape of Information Science in its First Decades of Existence -- 1.4.8. In Search of Scientific and Cognitive Recognition.

1.5. The Interdiscipline of Information and Communication Sciences: Une Exception Française? -- Chapter 2 Emergence of LIS in Yugoslavia: Božo Težak's Information Super-structures -- 2.1. Attempts to set up LIS Education after the Second World War Era -- 2.2. Božo Težak: Chemistry Meets Information Science -- 2.3. Božo Težak's Inspirations: European and American Influences -- 2.4. Božo Težak's Information Supra-structures: Influence of Systemics and Cybernetics -- 2.4.1. The International Permanent Exhibition of Publications -- 2.4.2. The Center for the Study of Librarianship, Documentation and Information Sciences -- 2.4.3. The Referral Centre: Information Centres within Information Centres -- 2.5. Informatologia Yugoslavica: A Strategic Communication Tool -- 2.6. Težak's Ambition for Yugoslavia: An International Hub for Information Science -- 2.6.1. Težak's Legacy to Information Science in Yugoslavia -- 2.6.2. Težak's Ideals for Free, Open and Networked Information Systems -- Chapter 3 Emergence of LIS in Three Scandinavian Countries: A Tale of Nordic Competition and Cooperation -- 3.1. Copenhagen, the Epicentre of LIS Development in Denmark -- 3.1.1. The Move from Librarianship to Library and Information Science -- 3.1.2. Competing Research Visions at the RSLIS: The Battle for Pre-eminence -- 3.2. Emergence of LIS in Sweden: a Centrifugal Model of Development -- 3.2.1. Loosening the Monopoly of Stockholm -- 3.2.2. Dichotomy in Research Poles: Information Science and Library Science -- 3.3. Norway: A Terrain of Nordic Collaboration and Innovation in LIS -- 3.3.1. Training the "Complete Librarian": An Integrative Model of LIS Education -- 3.3.2. The Documentation Science Institute at Tromsø: A Terrain of Innovation -- 3.3.3. The Power of Serendipity: Coffee-break Meeting and the Birth of the Neo-documentation Movement.

3.4. The Famed Nordic Cooperation Operating in LIS -- 3.4.1. Getting the Best Players in the Field -- 3.4.2. The Anglophone Cousinry Is Well and Truly Alive -- Chapter 4 Emergence of LIS in Spain and Portugal under Francophone Influence -- 4.1. From Special Library Schools to Collaboration with Universities -- 4.2. Integration of LIS Education into Universities -- 4.3. Spanish Pioneers in LIS and the weight of the Complutense School in Madrid -- 4.4. The Francophone Influence and the Shadow of Paul Otlet -- 4.5. Policies for Scientific and Technical Information Infrastructures in Spain -- 4.6. Emergence of LIS in Portugal -- 4.6.1. From Vocational Library Schools to the University -- 4.6.2. Administrators of Libraries and Archives in the Early Twentieth Century -- 4.6.3. The Battle for Survival and for Academic Recognition -- 4.7. Network of Links between European Pioneers of LIS -- Chapter 5 In Search of an Identity and the Object of a Discipline -- 5.1. From Library Science to Documentation and to Information Science -- 5.2. Informatology: Between Information Processing and a Metascience of Information Science -- 5.2.1. Informatology as Information Processing: The Swedish Trail -- 5.2.2. Informatology as a Metascience of Information: The American Trail -- 5.2.3. Documentology and Informatology: The French Trail -- 5.2.4. Summary of the Informatology Track -- 5.3. Informatics and the Information Processing Paradigm -- 5.3.1. Informatics as Information Processing or Computer Science: The French Trail -- 5.3.2. Informatics as the Science of Scientific Information: The Russian Trail -- 5.3.3. Summary of Informatics Trails -- 5.4. Terminological Dilemma in the Hispanic Zone: Between Francophone and Anglophone Influence -- 5.5. The Dance between Narrow and Broad Conceptions of Information Science.

5.5.1. The Narrow Physico-processual Conception of Information Science -- 5.5.2. The Swing back to a Broad Socio-cultural Conception of Information Science -- 5.5.3. The Oscillation between a Broad and Narrow Focus of LIS -- 5.5.4. In Search of the "Object" of a Discipline: The Circle of Relativism -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- A1. Interviewees CROATIA - 9 April 2017 -- Neva Tudor-Silovic -- Tatjana Aparac-Jelusic, Emerita Professor of LIS -- A2. Interviewee for Denmark, Sweden, Norway, 4-7 May 2017 -- A3. Interviewees for Spain, 29-31 May 2017 -- The Barcelona Group -- The Madrid Group -- A4. Interviewee for Portugal -- References -- General -- France -- Yugoslavia -- Denmark, Sweden &amp -- Norway -- Spain and Portugal -- Others -- Index.

This book explores the history of Library and Information Science (LIS) across non-English speaking European countries, including France, ex-Yugoslavia, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Spain and Portugal.

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