This 75th anniversary of ASIS&T presents an opportunity to reflect on the field of information science (IS) and one of its main subfields, bibliometrics. Information science examines the processes, phenomena and institutions that bring people, technology and written records together. It is an adaptable and dynamic field, especially in response to technological innovation. Bibliometrics is one of the rare methods and metatheories used in IS that originated within the field. Joining the traditional methods of bibliometrics are scientometrics, informetrics, webometrics and most recently altmetrics to describe quantitative studies that use scientific information, information phenomena, online data and non-traditional scientific data, respectively, to observe the creation, diffusion and interaction of information.