Information library and sciences in the age of Wikipédia

This article looks at how library science is represented in Wikipédia. It begins with a brief look back at various attempts to classify work in the field of library science before surveying the current situation, based on the articles in the Information and Library Science portal. The article demonstrates that Information Science's lack of visibility on Wikipédia is largely due to the ambivalent relationship between the Wikipédia and library communities, and concludes by arguing that librarians should engage more fully with the online encyclopaedia.
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