Citation
Sakas, G.A.G.a.D.P. (2014), "Preface", Library Review, Vol. 63 No. 6/7. https://doi.org/10.1108/LR-07-2014-0083
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Preface
Article Type: Preface From: Library Review, Volume 63, Issue 6/7
The idea of integrated information started off as a discussion among faculty members at the Department of Library Science and Information Systems of the Technological Educational Institute of Athens (TEI- A). Originally, defining the common grounds among library science, archives and museum studies was not only our goal but the essence of establishing academic cooperations among colleagues and enhancing the connectivity of our curriculum. This gave the spark for organizing an international conference and broadening the circle of participants stressing the interdisciplinary character of information science. We approach the notion of integrated information as a web kneed by simple and complex threats that lead to approach information in diverse forms, types and substrates.
The International Conference on Integrated Information (IC-ININFO) from its first meeting in Kos Island in 2011 aimed at establishing an open forum for the exchange of ideas among scholars from diverse fields regarding the elements and nature of information. The Conference was open not only to academics but also to information professionals in an attempt to stress the applied nature of information itself.
Since then, the yearly held conference does not limit its scope strictly to information science topics but it encourages constructive dialogue in a broad framework set by the undoubted need to examine information under a new light, as an integrated field of both theory and practice across diverse, yet related disciplines.
Information is dealt with as a broad, interdisciplinary field, incorporating aspects of various – but often diverse – fields such as library science, archival science, museology, computer science, communications, management, cognitive science, commerce, law, mathematics, ethics and philosophy, public policy and social sciences.
The IC-ININFO, after its successful meetings in Kos Island, Budapest and Prague, is ready to take a further step forward in the direction of an open dialogue held in an annual basis aiming at the exchange of information and experience of all involved in the field of information.
It is for this reason that we greatly appreciate the fact that a respected and well-established journal such as Library Review has given us a special issue to publish some of our best contributions to the conference. The articles included in the issue have been submitted to last year’s IC-ININFO meeting and have been selected to match the journal’s interests. We would like to express our gratitude to a distinguished colleague Judith Broady-Preston for her willingness and support, and we hope for further cooperation.
Georgios A. Giannakopoulos, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Athens, Greece
Damianos P. Sakas, University of Peloponnese, Sparti, Greece