TY - JOUR
T1 - Pioneering women in information science
AU - Bonnici, Laurie J.
AU - Furner, Jonathan
AU - Justice, Alexander
AU - Barre, Kathryn La
AU - Miksa, Shawne D.
AU - Plant, Helen
PY - 2003/10
Y1 - 2003/10
N2 - This Panel examines the lives and work in information science of six pioneering women Helen Brownson, Elfreda Chatman, Edith Ditmas, Margaret Egan, Barbara Kyle, and Phyllis Richmond. In careers that collectively span more than seventy years, these women have had tremendous impact on our field. Yet the full extent of their influence has often gone unrecognized in the secondary literature. In this session, we will seek to reveal these pioneers' contributions in such areas as documentation, classification, information retrieval, and social epistemology; to identify reasons for the historical neglect of some of these contributions; and to provide links to our past that will enhance our understanding of current theory and practice in the field of library and information science.
AB - This Panel examines the lives and work in information science of six pioneering women Helen Brownson, Elfreda Chatman, Edith Ditmas, Margaret Egan, Barbara Kyle, and Phyllis Richmond. In careers that collectively span more than seventy years, these women have had tremendous impact on our field. Yet the full extent of their influence has often gone unrecognized in the secondary literature. In this session, we will seek to reveal these pioneers' contributions in such areas as documentation, classification, information retrieval, and social epistemology; to identify reasons for the historical neglect of some of these contributions; and to provide links to our past that will enhance our understanding of current theory and practice in the field of library and information science.
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U2 - 10.1002/meet.1450400151
DO - 10.1002/meet.1450400151
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34247169231
SN - 1550-8390
VL - 40
SP - 425
JO - Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting
JF - Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting
ER -