Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1. Information and Information Science 3

2. Two perspectives on Information Science Reprinted 19

Information Science: What Is It? by H. Borko 21

Towards a Metascience of Information: Informatology by K. Otten & A. Debons 26

3. Communication 39

4. Information Retrieval 51

5. Bibliometrics 63

6. Information Economics 79

7. Interpretations of Value 99

8. Digital Accessibility: Information Value in Changing Hierarchies with Co-author J. Lester 109

About the Author 121

Index 123