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Library Science

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Library science is an academic and professional discipline concerned with the principles, methods, and practices involved in selecting, organizing, preserving, retrieving, and providing access to information resources. Its scope includes collection development, cataloguing and classification, information retrieval, library management, user services, and the study of information needs and information-seeking behavior [1][2]. The discipline combines theoretical inquiry with practical approaches to helping individuals and communities discover, evaluate, and use recorded knowledge. As information environments have expanded beyond physical libraries, library science has increasingly engaged with digital collections, electronic resources, and networked information services [2]. Although closely related to information science, library science retains a particular focus on libraries, their collections, their services, and their roles in supporting education, research, and public access to knowledge [3].

library science library services information organization information retrieval collection management
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  1. Birger Hjørland; Library and information science: practice, theory, and philosophical basis. Inf. Process. Manag. 2000, 36, 501-531. [CrossRef]
  2. Michael Buckland; What kind of science can information science be?. J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. Technol. 2011, 63, 1-7. [CrossRef]
  3. Dick, A. L. Library and Information Science as a Social Science: Neutral and Normative Conceptions. Libr. Q. 1995, 65, 216-235. [CrossRef]
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