"Fragmentation is a term that occurs
in several fields and describes a process of something breaking
or being divided into pieces (fragments)." (Wikipedia, 2005).
Among the meanings presented by Wikipedia is not the one, most important for Library and Information Science: The fragmentation of knowledge production and the scientific literature. The ideals of the empiricist philosophy to emphasize observations and to neglect theoretical and literary studies tends to cause fragmentation and disintegration in knowledge production.