Nun hat die Informationsgeschichte auch ihre erste Monografie über das Fach selbst. Gerade erschienen ist:

Toni Weller: Information history : an introduction ; exploring an emergent field. Oxford: Chandos, 2008.

Das Buch

… explores how the contemporary values and concerns of our own information society have helped lead to a reconsideration of our history, and of what constitutes our historical understanding of information in the twenty-first century. … It takes a forward looking approach to the emergence of further LIS departments embracing it in their curriculum, and historians exploring the concept of information an explicit part of their research.

Content:

• Introducing information history – The Information Age; information history in the 2000s; defining information; studying information
• The relevance of information history – specific skills; general skills; contextualisation; development of the information profession
• Key schools of thought in information history:
  • library and book history
  • the history of information systems and infrastructures
  • the history of information disciplines
  • cultural and social explorations of information
  • origins of the information society
• Information history in practice – research; teaching
• Looking forward – the next ten years