TY  - JOUR
AB  - This paper investigates the problem of the labelling of the library, documentation and information field with particular emphasis on the terms ‘information’ and ‘document’. What influences introduced the concept of ‘information’ into the library field in the middle of the twentieth century? What kind of theoretical orientations have dominated the field, and how are these orientations linked to epistemological assumptions? What is the implication of the recent influence of socially oriented epistemologies for such basic concepts in IS as ‘information’ and ‘document’? The article explores these problems and advocates an approach with emphasis on documents and on the concept ‘memory institutions’ as generic terms for the central object of study.
VL  - 56
IS  - 1
SN  - 0022-0418
DO  - 10.1108/EUM0000000007107
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000007107
AU  - Hjørland Birger
PY  - 2000
Y1  - 2000/01/01
TI  - Documents, memory institutions and information science
T2  - Journal of Documentation
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 27
EP  - 41
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -