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Citation does not necessarily reflect current demand.

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The principles of information science apply, whatever the medium of transfer.

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Looking back, I ask myself why so little of the basic research has had an impact on professional practice.

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User needs determine what functions should be provided, and different functions require different structures.

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It is with this whole cycle [between generation and use of information] that information science is now concerned.

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Documentation is a practice concerned with all the processes involved in transferring documents from sources to users.

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The job of our profession is to facilitate the provision of knowledge (in all forms) to those who need it (for whatever purpose).

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The scientific study of the communication of information in society – information science in the sense of an academic discipline...

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The crux of the retrieval problem is that selecting documents to read grows ever more difficult, and new techniques are continually needed.

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Classification in its simplest terms, means putting together things or ideas that are alike, and keeping separate those that are different.

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There is as yet no unified theory of retrieval systems, and a good deal of retrieval practice is still an empirical art, unsullied by theory.

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Facet analysis results in more varied, multidimensional relationships, at least in theory, better reflecting the complexity of subject knowledge

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For the profession as a whole, it is necessary that our hard-won understanding of our discipline be handed on to the next generation in a formal way.

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Information science is concerned with every aspect of the chain of information transfer activities, but the heart of its interest is information search.

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The old-established groups in the information profession... have come to recognise that many other social groups are concerned with information transfer.

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Despite the fact that our profession constantly urges others to consult the literature, I do not think we are distinguished nowadays by knowledge of our heritage.

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[Information] science and technology are now so closely linked that analysis and experiment lead quickly on to invention, to the introduction of new channels (and documents).

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I suspect that teaching the history of our subject is less frequent in our institutions than it was. We are getting short-sighted both in looking forward and in looking backward, to our detriment.

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