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Information Science
This is the name given to the multidisciplinary science which deals with the retrieval, organisation, categorisation, storage and dissemination of information.
The name ‘information science’ often leads people to assume it is only connected to information technology (IT; that it is a sub-discipline of computer science. It does include aspects of computer science but it also includes a great many other areas which are as follows:
- librarianship
- communications
- law
- mathematics
- management
- social sciences
- public policy
What we do know is that it is concerned with how knowledge is best used in companies and businesses: how does it impact upon the relationship between people and the organisation? It also plays a major role in the relationship between people and information systems, for example, a benefits processing system used in a government department.