International Encyclopedia of Information and Library Science

Readers of Reference Reviews will have noticed with pleasure the burgeoning output of “international” encyclopedias from Routledge. It is with particular interest that we review a new one on our own speciality ‐ information and library science. The editors, John Feather and Paul Sturges, gathered together more than 150 experts from around the world to provide a thoroughly new and thoroughly modern reference book. Superficially it is a traditional encyclopedia with an alphabetical arrangement of key terms, with longer or shorter articles, references and bibliographies. But equally clearly, it is much more, as the extensive articles on information theory, policy...