Networked Collaboration: The Emerging Paradigm in Information Science

Abstract

From the 1994 CAIS Conference:
The Information Industry in Transition
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. May 25 - 27, 1994.

Rather than in the access it gives us to vast libraries of information, the fruits of information science are found, we suggest, in the unprecedented ways we find ourselves collaborating in our work. The old paradigm of information science--electronic delivery of information--is giving way to new embodiments of electronically-aided networked collaboration. We use some CAIS history, and two contemporary examples to illustrate.