Apr 2, 2010
The third edition of the _Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences_ is now available online through the University Library:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/orr/get.php?instid=989207
Edited by Marcia J. Bates and Mary Niles Maack, ELIS-3 is a very different work from the second (2003) edition. Over three-fourths of the entries are new. ELIS-3 covers the following disciplines: archival science; bibliography; document and genre theory; informatics; information systems; knowledge management; library and information science; museum studies; records management; and social studies of information.