Handbook of Information Science

Dealing with information is one of the vital skills in the twenty-first century. It takes a fair degree of information savvy to create, represent and supply information as well as to search for and retrieve relevant knowledge. This Handbook is a basic work of information science, providing a comprehensive overview of the current state of information retrieval and knowledge representation. It addresses readers from all professions and scientific disciplines, but particularly scholars, practitioners and students of Information Science, Library Science, Computer Science, Information Management, and Knowledge Management.

Review:

Wolfgang and Mechtild Stock's Handbook of Information Science [...] weighs 3lbs 4 oz (1.47 kg) and has 901 pages, the end result of sustained elucubration and Stakhanovite resolve on part of the authors.(Blaise Cronin, Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology 64 (11): 2189, 2013). Inhaltlich bietet das Buch das, was man von einem Handbuch erwarten darf [...] Den Autoren ist es gelungen, eine interessante Mischung von Beitragen zu den jeweiligen Themenbereichen zu verfassen [...] Die Anschaffung lohnt sich fur alle Dozierenden, die das Fach Einfuhrung in die Informationswissenschaft unterrichten, denn das Buch regt zur Auseinandersetzung mit der eigenen Vorlesungskonzeption an.(Stephan Hollander, Password 10/2013, Seite 13)