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expanded into a plurality of research areas and fields of study today. Research in informa-

tion science ranges from classical topics about classification, indexing in the area of the

organisation of information including books, documents, articles, music, and data as well as

other artefacts to be preserved and made accessible for future use. For these classical topics,

information scientists have addressed multiple perspectives relating to information needs and

information behaviour in general and by different social groups in particular. Information

seeking as well as information retrieval are further broad areas of research with a very long

tradition and strong links to information technology and its developments used to manage

data, information, and knowledge. One cornerstone of the practice of information scientists

are institutions such as public libraries, which should provide unrestricted access to their col-

lections and which are even more important given the developments in today’s societies. The

plurality of information science research is also reflected in the growth of methodological

diversity, and experimental research is one particular option which has deepened the under-

standing in the field.