SIG-HFIS Resources

Journals

The following journals have accepted articles on the history and philosophy of information science:

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(1999)50:11%3C%3E1.0.CO;2-H/issuetoc The JASIS 50th anniversary issues (50.11, 50.12) contained papers from many active SIG HFIS members.
Education for Information https://www.iospress.nl/journal/education-for-information/. One special issue, 33(1), on philosophical topics in information science, and additional relevant articles in other issues; e.g., 34(3).
Information Processing and Management http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03064573
Information & Culture: A Journal of History https://utpress.utexas.edu/journals/information-culture
Library & Information History (UK) http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ylbh20
Library Trends https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/library_trends/
Knowledge Organization http://www.isko.org/ko.html
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing www.computer.org/annals. Two special issues on the history of library automation were published in 2002 under the direction of Boyd Rayward.
Libraries: Culture, History, and Society (ALA LHRT) http://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_LCHS.html
Open Information Science https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opis#

Books

Bergman, M.K. Knowledge Representation Practionary: Guidelines Based on Charles Sanders Peirce. Springer, 2019. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319980911
Bourne, C.P. and T.B. Hahn. A History of Online Information Services: 1963-1976. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/history-online-information-services-1963%E2%80%931976
Bowden, M.E. and B. Rayward, eds. Proceedings of the Second Conference on the History and Heritage of Scientific Information Systems. Information Today Press: Medford, NJ, 2004. http://othmerlib.chemheritage.org/record=b1063680~S6
Burke, Colin B. America’s Information Wars:The Untold Story of Information Systems in America’s Conflicts and Politics from World War II to the Internet Age. Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, MD, 2018. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538112458/
Day, R. The Modern Invention of Information: Discourse, History, and Power. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001. http://siupress.com/books/978-0-8093-2848-2
Day, R. Indexing it all: The subject in the age of documentation, information, and data. Mit Press. 2014.
Ibekwe, F. European Origins of Library and Information Science Vol: 13 Emerald Group Publishing, 2019. https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/European-Origins-of-Library-and-Information-Science/?k=9781787567184
Hahn, T.B. and M. Buckland, eds. Historical Studies in Information Science. Information Today: Medford, NJ. 1998. http://books.infotoday.com/asist/histstud.shtml
Hahn, T.B., R.V. Williams, and M.E. Bowden, eds. Proceedings of the Conference on the History and Heritage of Science Information Systems. Association of Information Science: Medford, NJ. 1999. http://othmerlib.chemheritage.org/record=b1018247~S6
Hjorland, B. and Gnoli, C. (Eds). ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization. International Society for Knowledge Organization, 2018. https://www.isko.org/cyclo/

Web Resources

The SIG-HFIS ListServ Archives (2002-2018): http://asist-archive.ischool.illinois.edu/sighfis-l/
ASIS&T History of Information Science which includes additional links. http://www.asis.org/historyis.html
Chronology of Information Science and Technology http://faculty.libsci.sc.edu/bob/istchron/ISCNET/ISCHRON.HTM
Pioneers of Information Science in North America http://faculty.libsci.sc.edu/bob/ISP/ISP.htm
History of Scientific (Scholarly) Information and Communication http://www.tu-harburg.de/b/hapke/infohist.htm
What has information science contributed to the world? http://faculty.libsci.sc.edu/BOB/IS%20Contributions/IScontributeIntro2.htm
Google Groups 20 Year Usenet Timeline (2013) http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive announce_20.html (included Tim Berners-Lee’s announcement of what became the World Wide Web and Linus Torvalds’ post about his ‘pet project’; archived at Internet Archive)
Michael Buckland’s personal page on the history of information science, full of resources. http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~buckland/history.html
Several entries in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) draw upon and complement work of interest to SIG-HFIS; e.g., https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/information/ and https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/categories/
Casey Fiesler (CU Boulder) maintains a spreadsheet of curricula pertaining to ethical issues in information science (e.g., info ethics, tech ethics).
Jenna Hartel (Toronto) has shared a YouTube video and poster examining notable theoretical turns in information science.
Kathryn La Barre has compiled a bibliography regarding the history of ASIS&T.
The Science History Institute administers the Garfield Fellowships that are relevant to HFIS in topic.

Related Organizations

The Communication and Information Technologies Section of the American Social Association has some cognate interests with HFIS: http://www.citasa.org
The Special Interest Group on Computers, Information and Society (www.sigcis.org) of the Society for the History of Technology (www.historyoftechnology.org) has more than two hundred members and a well developed website holding links, resources, and example syllabi related to the history of information technology and its use.
The American Library Association has a Library History Roundtable: http://www.ala.org/lhrt/ which hosts a Library History Seminar every five years (e.g., 2005, 2010, 2015).
The Association for Information System (AIS) has a special interest group, SIGPhil, that explores cognate topics surrounding the management of information systems (MIS): https://sigphil.wordpress.com/