Talk:Library and information science - Definition and Overview

NPOV?

This entry needs to be entirely rewritten, for several reasons.

First, the article lacks a neutral point of view. The bulk of the entry is really little more than the author’s own personal critique of librarianship and library and information science programs. It is simply not appropriate for an encyclopedia.

Second, it does not adequately describe the topic. There is no treatment of the history of library science or librarianship, nor an adequate explanation of the evolution of the discipline and its programs into modern-day Library and Information Science.

Compare this article with that of the same topic published in the Encyclopedia Britannica, for example, and you will see a marked difference in both coverage and tone.

Third, the list of links to Library and Information Science schools and other randomly chosen web sites is not selective, useful, or well organized. It should simply be deleted, or replaced with a select list of three or four links.

Now, I personally agree with several of the points raised by the author. Nevertheless, these are our opinions; opinions that are not shared by all.

I'm removing the following sentence for the reasons below.

"Information" and "documentation" means non-book materials that university libraries deal with, such as magazines, scientific journals, technical reports, and access to online databases.

Why define "documentation" which is not mentioned elsewhere in the article? The definition given is not a good definition of either "information" or "documentation". Non-book materials are dealt with by practically all types of libraries, not just academic libraries. Nurg 03:46, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Is NPOV still disputed? It has been over a year since the related talk. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 17:15, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

External links

This page has a very high ratio of external links to actual information on it, it is more of a links page than an information page; particularly as some of the external links are not in the smallish external links section. Given that WikiPedia is aiming to be an information source not a proxy for the internet couldn't we do the directs for the first list to the WikiPedia page on each institution and then only do the external link from there?

Please bear in mind that a school child who has persuaded his IT teacher to give him access to WIkiPedia isn't going to be allowed to follow external links off wikipedia.org (talk)--BozMo 20:37, 10 May 2004 (UTC)

Categories

Consider merging the following categories: Category:Style guides, Category:Bibliography and Category:Reference and making them a subcategory of Category:Library and information science. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 17:15, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)