Table of Contents

1 Library and Information Science in Context: Th e Development of Scientific Fields and Their Relations to Professional Contexts 2 Every Discipline Needs a History: Information Management and the Early Information Society in Britain 3 Th eSocial Legitimacy of Library and Information Studies: Reconsidering the Institutional Paradigm 4 Social and Cultural Awariness and Responsibility in Library, Information, and Documentation Studies 5 Documentation in a Complementary Perspective 6 Information History, Library History, or History By and Large? Remarks on Recent Discussion on Library and Information History 7 Francis Bacon's Natural History and Problems of the Communication of Scientific Knowledge 8 Hermeneutics of Metadocumentation and Librarianship 9 Reflections on Social and Cultural Awareness and Responsibility in Library, Information and Documentation - Commentary on the SCARLID Colloquium

About the Author

W Boyd Rayward is a research professor at the University of Illinois Graduate Library School. He has published widely on the history of aspects of the international organization and dissemination of information.