The Changing Face of Library and Information Science Profession

Abstract

The field of what was once renowned as librarianship has evolved and significantly transformed from the 1940s through such nomenclatures as library studies, library/information science, information science, information management/knowledge management, and informatics. Through this transformation, archives and records management which was once a distinct discipline has progressively been integrated into the library/info disciplinary space. As a result of these transitions, librarianship has evolved to become a highly interdisciplinary infospace as reflected in the diversity of papers carried in this current issue of AJLAIS. Despite the transformation of librarianship into ‘‘new nomenclatural disciplines,” there remains an inextricable link between the umbilical cord of librarianship and the emergent ‘info’ disciplines. Read more. . .