On Inquiry: Human Concept Formation and Construction of Meaning through Library and Information Science Intermediation

摘要: Library and Information Science (LIS) is centrally concerned with providing instruments (documents, organization, bibliographies, indexes) to enable people become better informed through use of documents. The relationship between how LIS intermediation, the Basic Relationship, fundamental theory, practice, professional education LIS. This Relationship it understood in field investigated analysis selected texts according criteria derived from principles Assimilation Theory, grounded educational psychology, integrated complementary ideas cognate fields ancient rhetoric, cognitive linguistics, philosophy, communications studies. These were applied 413 texts. Distinct interdisciplinary trend our field, utilize other as concepts, here, are used reveal core concepts that innate uniquely central primary finding express dissonance Theory a small extent (5.6%), consonance silence most (88.8%). Overall, found be not consonant Theory. leads recommendations (Part IV) for path an Theory-consonant comprised of: (1) conceptual indexing complement present information service, (2) constructive retrieval (CR) alternative (IR), (3) curriculum research program upon concern virtually all facets information: humans becoming (constructing meaning) via intermediation inquirers instrumented records, (4) differentiate others. A set skills (5) common researchers, service providers, students, educators described. can have favorable impact two ways: benefit paradigm takes into account their prior knowledge (as urged by Ausubel), important explanations never apparently known any specific person might discovered detection explanatory concept paths among disjunct literatures shown worked example Swanson's discovery undiscovered public associated dietary fish oil Raynaud's disease.