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information science

Discipline that deals with the processes of storing and transferring information. It attempts to bring together concepts and methods from such varied disciplines as library science, computer science and engineering, linguistics, and psychology to develop techniques and devices to aid in the handling of information. In its early stages in the 1960s, information science was concerned primarily with applying the then-new computer technology to the processing and managing of documents. The applied computer technologies and theoretical studies of information science have since permeated many other disciplines. Computer science and engineering still tend to absorb its theory- and technology-oriented subjects, and management science tends to absorb information-systems subjects.

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information science

See information management.

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information science [‚in·fər¦mā·shən ¦sī·əns]

(science and technology)

The theory and techniques relating to the collection, classification, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of recorded knowledge.