Information - Knowledge - Evolution

The rapid advance of information technology has enabled vast quantities of data to be processed and transmitted over large distances at amazingly high speed and low cost. However, the process of absorbing information, particularly technological information, is less well understood. The International Federation for Information and Documentation - the international organization which will be 100 years old in 1995 - spanning the specialized, and, too often in the past, solitary disciplines of librarianship, documentation and information science, classification, data processing, communications, and technology transfer - is well suited to bring together these topics for discussion. This volume contains a selection of papers from those presented at the 44th FID Conference and Congress in Finland. Due to the large number of papers presented at the conference not all of them could be included in this volume, so the choice fell upon those contributions which highlighted new ideas, research or developments in areas of current interest and importance to the future of information work and the profession.
 
The rapid advance of information technology has enabled vast quantities of data to be processed and transmitted over large distances at amazingly high speed and low cost. However, the process of absorbing information, particularly technological information, is less well understood. The International Federation for Information and Documentation - the international organization which will be 100 years old in 1995 - spanning the specialized, and, too often in the past, solitary disciplines of librarianship, documentation and information science, classification, data processing, communications, and technology transfer - is well suited to bring together these topics for discussion. This volume contains a selection of papers from those presented at the 44th FID Conference and Congress in Finland. Due to the large number of papers presented at the conference not all of them could be included in this volume, so the choice fell upon those contributions which highlighted new ideas, research or developments in areas of current interest and importance to the future of information work and the profession.