This document offers a definition of the Information Sciences and illustrates their impact, especially on universities. For want of popular accounts to serve as reference points for this discussion, it will describe the Information Sciences by comparison to the more traditional sciences. Many points are best made by examples from computer science which is at the core of this constellation of di...

The financial industry has been strongly influenced by digitalization in the past few years reflected by the emergence of “FinTech,” which represents the marriage of “finance” and “information technology.” FinTech provides opportunities for the creation of new services and business models and poses challenges to traditional financial service providers. Therefore, FinTech has become a subject of...

This review examines the basic tenets of qualitative or naturalistic methods in terms of their original grounding in the basic social sciences and their value to library and information science research. Examination of the five key points provides the understanding needed to move from contemplation to use of these methods: the research problem, data gathering, content analysis, theory developme...