Information Science is concerned with the theoretical and practical aspects of effective information provision and consumption. In particular, information scientists explore the theoretical underpinnings and practical competencies involved in the generation, collection, organization, processing, management, storage, retrieval, distribution, communication, and utilization of information. In today's knowledge societies (shaped, in the words of the editors of this new Routledge title, 'by an unabatedly accumulating abundance of information'), it is perhaps unsurprising that Information Science...