引言情报科学自诞生以来,大约有半个世纪了。尽管对一门年青的学科而言,正确地把握它的学科性质不能不是一件重要而基本的任务,然而,普遍并不觉得在这一基本问题上有什么毛病。这里不象其它一些问题(如情报的定义)存在着广泛而旷日持久的学术争鸣,给人以某种“悬而未决”的印象。关于学科性质,出现的几乎都是大家都能接受的说法,例如,“情报学是一门综合性的边缘学科”,即使有些不完 Introduction Information science has been around for about half a century since it was born. Although it is an important and basic task for a young discipline to correctly grasp the nature of its discipline, it is generally not felt that there are any problems with this basic problem. There is no widespread and protracted academic debate here, unlike some other issues (such as the definition of intelligence), giving some impression of “pending.” As to the nature of the discipline, almost all of them are accepted as saying that “information science is a comprehensive frontier discipline,” and even if it is somewhat incomplete