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1 What is information science? Disciplines and professionsĢ History of information: the story of documentsģ Philosophies and paradigms of information scienceħ Information technologies: creation, dissemination and retrievalġ0 Communicating information: changing contextsġ4 Information science research: what and how?ġ5 The future of the information sciences
