Introduction. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in ethnographic research within the field of library and Information studies. Although ethnography has been used by information researchers for studying a wide variety of phenomena, discussions concerning methodological developments and directions, as well as ethnography’s wider applicability within the field are rare. Our intent ...

We propose digital storytelling as a pedagogical tool for online Library and Information Science education that recognizes diversity and fosters reflection among students and teacher. In a course titled Documenting Diverse Cultures and Communities, students contemplated their role as future information professionals and produced a short digital story dealing with community, archives, and histor...

Introduction In recent years, there has been a growing recognition of the necessity for interdisciplinary research that crosses disciplinary boundaries to deal with increasingly complex social issues (Rafols & Meyer, 2010). The relationship between the changes in interdisciplinarity of research over the years and researchers’ attributions has rarely been investigated. Understanding the relation...

This paper proposes to appeal to the structural-attributive approach to help establish a useful ontological categorization of information. Specifically, it argues that a framework for library and information science (LIS) based on Stonier’s theory of information would be helpful, with the intention to advance one of the unfinished dialogues of LIS, the socalled Wiener’s problem, or statutum ont...

The paper presents a review of e-learning initiatives in LIS. It defines e-learning and its characteristics, and describes the tools of e-learning. The paper also compares the traditional education with e-learning and states how both these methods complement each other.

What do you do to start reading spanning the theory practice divide in library and information science? Searching the book that you love to read first or find an interesting book that will make you want to read? Everybody has difference with their reason of reading a book. Actuary, reading habit must be from earlier. Many people may be love to read, but not a book. It's not fault. Someone will ...

objective: the aim of this study was to exploring the problems and challenges of dissertation writing process of library and information science in regard to students’ perspective.   method: the survey population was consisted of all library and information sciences’ students who graduated from one of the universities in tehran in recent years. the sample of research was consisted of 20 student...

In the past several years, researchers in library and information science, computer science and management information systems have claimed that knowledge workers will transform important characteristics of work due to increased access to digital libraries over the Internet. To explore the in ̄uence of digital libraries on knowledge work, this study investigated the use of paper and electronic m...