3 应用于图书馆的情报科学3.1 导 言 应用于图书馆的情报科学被称为“图书馆自动化”,这是一个令人产生误解的名称(Reed和Vrooman,1979),但很可能一直保留到下个世纪。我们必须谨慎地将某些事情称作什么或不称作什么,因为我们所犯的错误在我们之后会依然存在很久。一位图书馆员承认图书馆里主要的自动化是挂在墙上的灭火设备。我们建议宁可让那些率先构想情报科学在图书馆应用内容的人们来承担替换这一根深蒂固术语的艰巨任务。 3 INTELLIGENT SCIENCE APPLIED TO THE LIBRARY 3.1 INTRODUCTION The science of information applied to libraries is called “library automation” and is a misleading name (Reed and Vrooman, 1979), but is likely to remain under Century We must be careful about what we call something or not, because the mistakes we make will persist for a long time to come. One librarian admitted that the main automation in the library was the fire-fighting equipment hanging on the wall. We suggest that people who are the first to think about the content of information science in the library should be given the daunting task of replacing this deep-rooted term.