Library science and information science are related fields that both deal with collecting, organizing, and sharing information. While they have similar goals, they differ in some of their techniques. Library science focuses on managing physical collections within institutions like libraries, while information science takes a more technical approach to storing and retrieving digital information. Both fields have evolved over time and now often overlap, as modern librarianship incorporates more information and communication technologies.

1. Library science
Library science
By : Susheel Chourasiya
MS[LIS] 2016-18
DRTC, ISIBC

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Relationship of
Library Science
With
information science

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Different name of Library science
● Library studies
● Bibliothecography
● Library economy
● Library science
● Information science (1960)
● Library and Information science
● i-school
● Information departments

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History of information science
discipline
● School of librarianship- proffesional training programme (1960)
● First library school – university of pittsburgh (1964)
● The term "library science" seems to have been used for the
first time in India in a book in 1916 in the Punjab Library
Primer written by Asa Don Dickinson and published by the
University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.

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Definitions
● Library science – The study of collecting , preserving
and cataloguing of books , other documents in the library.
● Information science - the study of processes for
storing or retrieving information , especially scientific or
technical information.

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Similarities
library science and information science
1.Both are service oriented and changing fast
(vagianos,as cited in nitecki,1995)
2.Both approaches procure and handle
information and apply new technology (bohnert, as
cited , in nitecki ,1995)
3.Information work is an extension of library
work ( s. r. ranganathan , as cited in a team of expert ,2005)

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Cont.....
4. Information science is a part of library
science , not a saperate discipline; its claim to
uniqueness has no impirical,definational
evidence .(houser, as cited in nitecki , 1995)
5. the information science is a complex and
interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field which
also includes library science. (large , as cited in nitecki , 1995 )

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Cont........
6. traditional librarianship(manual
systems) is library science while
modern librarianship (ICT based,etc.)
information science.

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Differences
● Both have same objectives but differ in
techniques used
1. Information science is not institution- based
while library science is institution / organisation-
based. (gates as cited in nitecki, 1995)
2. Information science – factographic (based on
facts, not fiction) while libraries based on
documentographic (doc. Based & recorded info)

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Cont.... (why)
3. information science investigates properties
and behavior of information, its organisation,
storage , retrival , interpretation and utilization.
While library science concentrate on storing
and dissaminating knowledge contained in
documents.

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