Talk:Outline of library and information science

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I believe that first priority should be given to:

• writing practical articles on research methodology, such as
  • how to use a library and its services,
  • how to find and evaluate information on the Internet, and

• teaching and giving advice to those creating and using Wikipedia on
  • linking and organizing Wikipedia articles, and
  • searching Wikipedia for information.

Also, notice that many of the articles in this list are written from a computer science point of view, and need to be broadened to include other formats.

GUllman

I am not sure that most of the WP people really want to be taught by us how to make and use WP--Librarians do have some special knowledge, but it's not necessarily recognized here.

As for practical library user instruction, we need a separate section, and an overall name--preferably one that won't conflict or arouse antagonism. Perhaps, quite simply, "Library Help" DGG 02:44, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

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I know little about info sci but this seems to be a far more useful page than the Library and information science page. Why not link this page to the main page rather than the current link? Or even better still, why not add the hierarchical tree of links from this page to the info sci page. Maybe edit the info sci page down to a very brief summary and list the internal links. Anything else (including lists of associations) could go into seperate articles. That is my 2 cents worth on a topic I know nothing about. user:mydogategodshat

The short answer is that I'm following the example that has been set up for the other subject categories. There is no real information on this page; it's just a list of articles and potential articles, and who knows how large it will grow. Some of the "List of ... topics" and "Wikipedia:... basic topics" pages such as List of mathematics topics have grown so large that the page cannot be edited.

Depending on what they want to look up, people should have a choice whether they want to read a broad overview of a field they know nothing about, such as Library and Information Science, or choose from a list of specific topics, such as Wikipedia:Library and Information Science basic topics. If they want to do the first one, they choose the links on the Main Page. If they want to do the second, they should use the Lists of articles by category page, which I just finished rewriting and organizing. I think that both of these, along with the List of reference tables, should be given equal prominance on the Main Page.GUllman 18:24 23 Jun 2003 (UTC)

These are incredible lists: someone has been very busy. I will add a marketing list and a management list. How do you get around the problem of incompleteness? Hundreds of articles are added every day. Is there some automatic algorism that keeps the lists up to date? And why arn't these list more visible on the main page? I didnt know they existed. They are extremely useful and deserve easier access. - - user:mydogategodshat

I agree the Lists of articles by category should be more prominent (but of course, I'm biased). They aren't more well-known because none of them are complete and because they are all edited by hand. Someone just picks their favorite subject and adds existing and new articles until they get tired of doing it.

I know of two proposals for doing this automatically:

• Wikipedia:Category_experiment seems to have been an experiment where a computer tried to find all the articles related to Philosophy by following links.
• http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_categories_in_Wikipedia which proposes that every article includes a hidden code so the wiki software can understand what general "field of study" the article falls under.

GUllman

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I have decided to add links to list of management topics and list of marketing topics to all the marketing and management articles I have written and will write in the future. - user:mydogategodshat

Information science Pioneers in North America

Source: http://www.libsci.sc.edu/bob/ISP/isp.htm

There should be an article about each of them!

Notability?

Thanks for reminding us of this list, from http://www.libsci.sc.edu/bob/ISP/isp.htm, part of an ASIST project, hosted by U S Carolina School of Lib and Inf Sci. I had heard about the project, but forgotten. Some of them are indeed notable, like Bush. Most of the notable ones would also be claimed as library pioneeers, like Billings ; these two, appropriately, have articles already. Others may be suitable for a specialized subject directory, but hardly here. All we could do for most is summarize the inf in the ASIST project. I suggest that we simply add a link, for a more complete list, see ... [User:GUllman]], you made the suggestion, do you perhaps want to shorten the list a little? DGG 02:44, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

A

• Andrew Adolphe Aines

B

• Thomas Campbell Bagg
• Dale Burdette Baker
• Joseph Becker
• Lodewyk Bendikson
• Marsden S. Blois
• Harold Borko
• Charles Percy Bourne
• Helen Louise Brownson

C

• Verner Warren Clapp
• Pauline Atherton Cochrane
• Russell Cleven Coile
• Evan Jay Crane
• Carlos Albert Cuadra
• Ann T. Curran

D

• Watson Davis
• Melvin Sherman Day
• James Louis Dolby

E

• Arthur W. Elias

F

• Bernard M. Fry
• Steve Furth
• Herman Fussler

G

• Fielding Hudson Garrison
• Cloyd Dake Gull

H

• Laurence Bedford Heilprin
• Madeline M. (Berry) Henderson
• Herman H. Henkle
• Mary Herner
• Saul Herner
• Karl F. Heumann
• Don Hillman
• Joseph Hilsenrath

J

• Eugene Bernard Jackson

K

• Allen Kent
• Myer Mike Kessler
• Frederick Gridley Kilgour
• Donald Ward King
• Manfred Kochen
• John W. Kuipers

L

• Arthur Becket Lamb
• Sanford Vincent Larkey
• Milton Oliver Lee
• Ferdinand Francis Leimkuhler
• Jr. Lide, David Reynolds
• Ben-Ami Lipetz
• Alfred James Lokta

M

• Melvin Earl (Bill) Maron
• Herbert Menzel
• Calvin Northrup Mooers
• Jack Cassius Morris
• John Wallace Murdock

P

• William J. Paisley
• Austin McDowell Patterson
• James Whitney Perry
• Eugene Barnum Power
• Derek DeSolla Price

R

• Malcom Rigby
• Frank Bradway Rogers
• Alexander Rudolph

S

• Claire Kelly Schultz
• Atherton Seidell
• Winifred Sewell
• Ralph Robert Shaw
• Gustavus Simpson
• Herman Skolnik
• Gerald J. Sophar
• Charles H. Stevens
• Roger Kent Summit

T

• Seymour Irving Taine
• Fred Alonzo Tate
• Vernon Dale Tate
• Mortimer Taube
• Robert Saxton Taylor
• Yeram Sarkis Touloukian

V

• George E. Vladutz

W

• Israel Warheit
• Warren Sr. Weaver
• Herbert S. White
• William Joseph Wiswesser
• Harold A. Wooster

Rename proposal for this page and all the pages of the set this page belongs to

See the proposal at the Village pump

The Transhumanist 09:20, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Guidelines for outlines

Guidelines for the development of outlines are being drafted at Wikipedia:Outlines.

Your input and feedback is welcomed and encouraged.

The Transhumanist 00:31, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

The "History of" section needs links!

Please add some relevant links to the history section.

Links can be found in the "History of" article for this subject, in the "History of" category for this subject, or in the corresponding navigation templates. Or you could search for topics on Google - most topics turn blue when added to Wikipedia as internal links.

The Transhumanist 00:31, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Quick explanation of Wikipedia outlines

"Outline" is short for "hierarchical outline". There are two types of outlines: sentence outlines (like those you made in school to plan a paper), and topic outlines (like the topical synopses that professors hand out at the beginning of a college course). Outlines on Wikipedia are primarily topic outlines that serve 2 main purposes: they provide taxonomical classification of subjects showing what topics belong to a subject and how they are related to each other (via their placement in the tree structure), and as subject-based tables of contents linked to topics in the encyclopedia. The hierarchy is maintained through the use of heading levels and indented bullets. See Wikipedia:Outlines for a more in-depth explanation. The Transhumanist 00:07, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Requested move 28 June 2022

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

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Result:
Moved per survey below with support and no objections. Closure requested <permalink>. Thanks and kudos to editors for your input; good health to all! P.I. Ellsworth , ed. ^put'r there 23:50, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

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Outline of library science → Outline of library and information science – Library and information science is a well established, interdisciplinary field of study that have numbers of overlapping concepts and terms that are leant upon to understand the subject. I feel renaming this page would help align this better as well as better capturing the content that is currently on this page, with a mix of library and information science-related topics. Jamzze (talk) 20:04, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Support It makes sense and fits with the LIS sidebar template. Gusfriend (talk) 12:57, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.