A personal view of library and information studies more

Whatever Library and Information Studies might be, "information" itself must "exist" in some real sense, or any attempt to study it scientifically would be fruitless. Librarianship can be viewed, as Jesse Shera put it, as a sort of "social epistemology". Perhaps it is also a "phenomenology of information." This personal statement is based on ideas culled from the work of Shannon and Weaver, Norbert Wiener, Thomas Kuhn, S.R. Ranganathan, Marshall McLuhan and Harold Innis, Peter Checkland and Ludwig von Bertalanffy, and others.