A text becomes canonical in information science not by age but by how many later arguments start from it

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Bates on the invisible substrate of information science is still assigned in doctoral seminars No single textbook covers information studies so reading lists are assembled from journal articles Citation half-life in information science is short enough that a 1990 review reads as history Why is cataloging books so hard? Subject headings and controlled vocabularies explained The h-index measures cumulative impact and punishes career breaks and late bloomers equally Shannon's 1948 paper separated information from meaning and engineers and philosophers still argue about it Dewey files Christianity at 230 while every other religion shares the 290s Gleick's The Information is readable history and loose with the physics Is library science the same field as information science? Ranganathan's faceted classification from 1933 still beats most modern tagging systems

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