Library Information System

Contents: Preface. 1. Basic facts. 2. Library and information science. 3. Social and scientific library. 4. Information through networking. 5. Working of library. 6. Documentation and information. 7. Audio-visual material in library. 8. Tools for librarians. 9. Planning in library. 10. Current technology in library. 11. Electronic service library. 12. Decision making process. Index.

"The terms information and knowledge are often used synonymously. It is contended that the phrase "knowledge and information" is redundant and occasionally refers to certain kinds of knowledge as information, while another view is that there is a difference. One crucial difference between knowledge and information is that knowledge is cognitively structured.

Information has also been defined as the act of informing, and knowledge as the contents of the message. This does not define what "informing" is. Shera contends that epistemology is the foundation of librarianship. If this is so, it should equally apply to information science, unless information is treated as a physical quantity or neural phenomenon devoid of social and cognitive context." (jacket)