Historical information science: an emerging unidiscipline

"Here is an extensive review and bibliographic essay, backed by 5,000 citations, about developments in information technology since the advent of personal computing and the convergence of the disciplines. Its focus is on the access, preservation, and analysis of historical information (primarily in electronic form), and the relationships between new methodology and instructional media, technique, and research trends in library special collections, digital libraries, electronic and data archives, and museums."--

Preface: 1 -- Introduction 3 -- Chapter 1. Foundations and Definitions 15 -- Changing Times and Terms 16 -- Scientific Historicism, Method, and Technique 16 -- Historical and Information Work 24 -- Historical Information Science 37 -- Origins and Developments 59 -- Debated New Beginnings 59 -- Introspection and New Skepticism 66 -- Converging Technologies, Ideas, and Disciplines 75 -- Chapter 2. Reflexive Inspection: -- Information, Technology, and Culture 85 -- History Information: Bibliography and Use 85 -- Literature Searching and Bibliographic Control 85 -- Library Science and Historian Use Studies 120 -- Computer Literacy and History Computing Initiatives 139 -- History of Information Science and Technology 149 -- History of Information Institutions 151 -- History of Information Science 160 -- History of Information Technology 171 -- New Cultural Studies and Management 181 -- Collective Memory and Culture 183 -- Organizational Culture and Corporate Memory 208 -- Chapter 3. Sources and Evidence: -- Data and Electronic Archives 233 -- History-Archives Relations 234 -- Providers and Users: Rising Mutual Expectations 234 -- Archives Access: Description, Automation, and Retro-Conv…