Library and information science

The related areas of Library, Information and Documentation Science (BID) are all concerned in the broadest sense with information and knowledge. See the documentation that science is all about the collection and processing of information about their Auffindbarmachung. The library science dedicated to this task, but it prepares the results for use in libraries. With a wide spectrum of information science includes a focus on the general analysis of information processes and has a greater proximity to computer science than the other two disciplines. While the library and information science understands, among other English-speaking country rather than a coherent subject, in Germany is still a separation in these three areas to determine.

More active in the information area facilities are news and press agencies and the press. Instead of taking to search for information themselves these facilities, you can also select to search by a so-called information brokers or press services.

Facilities of the BID area

  • Archive
  • Counseling and information services (eg consumer advice and Federal Statistical Office)
  • Libraries
  • Information institutions
  • Museums

Many specialized institutions simultaneously entertained documentation center, library and archive and offer their bibliographies as a database.

Whether it 's about a topic its own documentation center, depends primarily on whether there is a financial backer for it. This in turn is determined inter alia by the scientific relevance of the topic and the possibility of differentiating it from other disciplines.

Associations

Associations from the library Aryan area are summarized below Librarian associations.

The German Society for Information Science and Information Practice Association ( DGI, DGD until 1999 ) is an interest association of career professionals and academics in the field of information and documentation science. Similar associations are the Austrian Society for Documentation and Information ( ÖGDI ) and the Swiss Association for Documentation (SVD / ASD).

In addition, there are specialized companies in the field of information and library science and related disciplines, such as:

  • Classification Society
  • Information Centre for Terminology ( INFOTERM, Austria )

Learning and Teaching

A collection of programs from the BID area can be found, for example at the following address:

  • Courses from the BID area
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