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Journals ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer... Volume 20 Issue 1

Essay Awareness Essays This is the second in our series of professional awareness essays, in which a *JCDcommentator calls attention to what he or she regards as interesting and documentation-relevant recent trends, problems, or publications is some related field. Information Science Speaks to Documentation: A Comparative Commentary on the Recent Literature T. R. Girill, JCD Editor-in-chief Introduction T his essay reviews a portion of the books and articles about information science published over the last five years and looks for useful, relevant borrowings for documentation projects. My own favorite window on the information-science literature is through the publications and awards of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS).The rest of this essay therefore tries to show the value of that approach for documentation specialists by mentioning, and sometimes examining, recent individual journal articles, whole books, and special-topic journal issues found noteworthy by ASIS. The ASIS monthly technical journal is appropriately called the Journal of the American Societyfor Information Science (or JASIS).JASIS provides a mainstream channel for well-crafted, perceptive formal articles on both of the major branches of information science, namely, bibliometrics (for example, citation analysis, not very relevant for us) and information retrieval (highly relevant). Since each JASIS

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Information science speaks to documentation: a comparative commentary on the recent literature

Girill, T. R.
ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation , Volume 20 (1)
Association for Computing Machinery – Feb 1, 1996

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