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Title / Titel: | Information Science Research and Sustainable Development. |
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Author / Autor: | Christine Meschede, Maria Henkel |
Source / Quelle: | Proceedings of the 81st Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Nov 10-14, 2018, Vancouver, Canada (pp. 871-872). |
Language / Sprache: | English / Englisch |
Abstract
Awareness on and importance of sustainability in all its facets is becoming more and more important in all as-pects of our lives. The question arises, how – not if – scientists can contribute to a sustainable development. As information and knowledge play an important role for development, information scientists should be included in this debate. But is there a sustainable information science or an information science of sustainability? Publica-tions from the Library and Information Science (LIS) community addressing this topic are present, but only sparse. With this visual presentation, we aim at identifying possibilities where Library and Information Scientists can contribute to a sustainable development through and in research as well as teaching. After presenting the results of a structured literature review on sustainability in LIS research we aim at discussing these and further ideas on a sustainable information future with the participants. Thereby we endeavor to raise awareness on the topic and to share approaches to include sustainability in research, teaching and practice.