Ken Herold, director of library information systems, is guest editor of the latest issue of the journal Library Trends on the topic of the confluence of librarianship and computing. The issue is titled "The Philosophy of Information."
Seventeen authors from the United States, Canada, England, Ireland, Denmark and Italy contributed critical works on documentation, relevance, verifiability, realism, classification, categorization, knowledge representation and organization, rhetoric and the information concept in general.
This unique and pioneering approach to information studies offers a rich exposition of the often tacit, but powerful, understandings within professional librarianship through the traditional forums of philosophical discourse: logic, epistemology, language, knowledge and ethics.
