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DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

LIL 101 (LIBRARIES, INFORMATION AND SOCIETY)

ASSIGNMENT

BY

ID NUMBER: 12/11/0403/001

INTRODUCTION

Today's age is defined by the intersection of information, technology, and

human creativity. In this context, library and information science is dedicated

to understanding the nature of information, the interaction between

information and communication technologies, the relationship between

information and knowledge, the cognitive and affective aspects of knowledge

acquisition, and the interface between people and information. It offers new

knowledge, technological benefits, and professional expertise for every

dimension of human affairs.

LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, RELATIONSHIP AND EVOLUTION

Library and information professionals take on many challenges in serving the

needs of their constituencies (different strata of society) which include children

and teachers, members of academic communities, employees of profit and

non-profit organizations, and the public at large. It also includes constituencies

that range from information poor to information rich. They work in the

contexts of issues such as information and communication technology, public


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and private information policy, managerial policy, and regional, national, and

international economics.

The common ground between library and information, which is a strong one, is

in the sharing of their social role and in their general concern with the

problems of effective utilization of access to the society. But there are also

very significant differences in several critical respects, among them in:

(1) Selection of problems addressed and in the way they were defined;

(2) Theoretical questions asked and frameworks established;

(3) The nature and degree of experimentation and empirical development and

the resulting practical knowledge/competencies derived;

(4) Tools and approaches used; and

(5) The nature and strength of interdisciplinary relations established and the

dependence of the progress and evolution of interdisciplinary approaches. All

of these differences warrant the conclusion that librarianship and information

science are two different fields in a strong interdisciplinary relation, rather

than one and the same field, or one being a special case of the other."

It should be considered that information science grew out ofdocumentation

scienceand therefore has a tradition for considering scientific and scholarly

communication,bibliographic databases, subject knowledge and terminology

etc. Library science, on the other hand has mostly concentrated on libraries

and their internal processes and best practices. It is also relevant to consider

that information science used to be done by scientists, while librarianship has

been split between public libraries and scholarly research libraries.Library

schoolshave mainly educated librarians for public libraries and not shown

much interest in scientific communication and documentation. When
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information scientists from 1964 entered library schools, they brought with

them competencies in relation to information retrieval in subject databases,

including concepts such as recall and precision, boolean search techniques,

query formulation and related issues. Subject bibliographic databases and

citation indexes provided a major step forward in information dissemination -

and also in the curriculum at library schools.

Julian Warner (2010) suggests that the information and computer science

tradition ininformation retrievalmay broadly be characterized as query

transformation, with the query articulated verbally by the user in advance ofsearching and then transformed by a system into a set of records. From

librarianship and indexing, on the other hand, has been an implicit stress

on selection power enabling the user to make relevant selections.

Concern for people becoming informed is not unique to Library and

Information science, and thus is insufficient to differentiate LIS from other

fields. LIS are a part of a larger enterprise." (Konrad, 2007).

The unique concern of LIS is recognized as: Statement of the core concern of

LIS: Humans becoming informed (constructing meaning) via intermediation

between inquirers and instrumented records. No other field has this as its

concern. " (Konrad, 2007)

Note that the promiscuous term information does not appear in the above

statement circumscribing the field's central concerns. Furner [2004] has shown

that discourse in the field is improved where specific terms are utilized in place

of the i-word for specific senses of that term (Konrad, 2007).

Michael Buckland wrote also wrote that Educational programs in library,

information and documentation are concerned with what people know, are

not limited to technology, and require wide-ranging expertise. They differ
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fundamentally and importantly from computer science programs and from the

information systems programs found in business schools.

THE SOCIAL ROLE OF LIBRARIES IN THE SOCIETY

A first perspective on how libraries can still be relevant institutions in the

digital age has been variously elaborated, Schulz emphasized that a library

should be seen as a place, as a space and as a relation. Developing the library

as relation means to develop and present information in cooperation with

other cultural institution, local civil society and residents. The library as a place

relates to the library as a hub in a city's fabric, while the library as a space is

constituted by the social aspect (meeting others, community center, concerts,

platform for local debates, etc.) and the bodily aspect (comfy chair, great

architecture, the library cafe, etc.). This concept puts the user (rather than

books) at the center of the library and offers a bodily and social experience

that virtual interaction cannot offer, at least not in the same way.

In the last decades, many advanced libraries have found new ways of fulfilling

its public task to make information available publicly, by improving skills (e.g.

computer courses for elderly people), by arousing people's curiosity by

presenting information on an innovative way and by presenting information

thematically whilst using multiple media formats. As an example, Schulz'

library developed the iFloor, by which library content can be browsed by

walking on a sensor-equiped screen carpet. In Schulz' experience this has

drastically increased interaction between library visitors.

The fact that libraries make active use of new technologies to present

information was also a central aspect in the presentation of Erik Boekesteijn,


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who works at the DOK library in Delft, the Netherlands. As an example he

presented a multi-touch table that enables library members to access the city

archive with their library card. The table recognizes the library card and

presents archive material (old pictures, maps, etc.) from the member's

neighborhood. Files can then be shared, for example by mail. Note that the

presented information was already available on the city archive's website. The

formal accessibility was already there, the role of the library was to present

existing information in a tempting way.

The new role of libraries in the digital age was also addressed by Nathalie

Vallet, who studies libraries in Belgium and the Netherlands. She found that

the development of new libraries are a tested way for local governments to

strengthen their city's profile, often by landmark architecture. She added that

such prestige library projects in the city center also reinforce attention for less

spectacular libraries that play an important social role on the neighborhood

community level.

CONCLUSION

It can be concluded that library which has an intricate relationship with

information plays a vital role in the society. In this is evident in the fact that the

library as a place relates to the library as a hub in a city's fabric, while the

library as a space is constituted by the social aspect (meeting others,

community center, concerts, platform for local debates, etc.) and the bodily

aspect (comfy chair, great architecture, the library cafe, etc.). This concept puts

the user (rather than books) at the center of the library and offers a bodily and

social experience that virtual interaction cannot offer, at least not in the same

way.


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