Library and information science identity at the crossroads: between the humanities and pure applied sciences

Abstract

Today, information and knowledge are considered wealth, while informatics is a revolution. Therefore, we stand at the crossroads, which in turn represents the current historical passage, with its major transformations in all aspects of life and work, which necessitates the necessity of reviewing our academic teaching directives for information sciences, libraries, and archives, in order to Drawing our alternatives in line with current and future modern requirements.

It is no secret to anyone who follows the development of printing on paper to publishing in its modern electronic sense, that it developed through a series of stages, which naturally led to the development of information vessels and media and the diversity of their forms and channels, and thus expanded the categories of workers and segments of interested people on a wide scale, including many. Fields and specializations, as these multiple connections contributed to creating a flexible framework for information science that includes many scholars from different specializations called information workers.

Therefore, the research paper aims to focus on analysis and extrapolation from the standpoint of the concept of information science as a field that investigates the properties of information and the nature of its processing and transformation, while not neglecting the applied aspect in the processes of developing information vessels, arranging them, evaluating them, and organizing the process of broadcasting them through appropriate technological channels and media, deducing the changes occurring in names and content. Programs for teaching information sciences, libraries and archives at all international levels in general and Arab ones in particular, as part of the journey of searching for identity...!, and then studying... in order to determine the path to a way out that outlines the identity of the information specialty in this millennium.