Sarah Robbins is Web Services Coordinator, Debra Engel is Associate Dean of Public Services, and Christina Kulp is Sciences Librarian at University of Oklahoma Libraries; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], respectively. © Sarah Robbins, Debra Engel, and Christina Kulp Studies of information-seeking behaviors are common in the professional literature for library and informati...

This paper presents a condensed history of Library and Information Science (LIS) over the course of more than a century using a variety of bibliometric measures. It examines in detail the variable rate of knowledge production in the field, shifts in subject coverage, the dominance of particular publication genres at different times, prevailing modes of production, interactions with other discip...

Soonil Bae Center for the Study of Digital Libraries, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3112 Haowei Hsieh School of Library and Information Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242-1420 DoHyoung Kim Center for the Study of Digital Libraries, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3112 Catherine C. Marshall Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, Mountain View, CA 94043...

The Association for Library and Information Science (ALISE) is now over 90 years old. Recently recommitted to a focus on research in library and information science teaching and pedagogy, and support for educators in the field, ALISE serves its members with a range of publications, awards, and services. Membership is strong and conference attendance is relatively high. Content analysis of the A...

The concept of information needs has been used in several models within library and information science, and especially in the field of information needs, seeking and use, to describe triggering factors for information seeking processes (e.g., Wilson 1981; Krikelas 1983; Leckie et al. 1996; Byström & Hansen 2005). However, it has been acknowledged that information needs as such are difficult to...

Information retrieval is a long established subfield of library and information science. Since its inception in the earlyto mid -1950s, it has grown as a result, in part, of well-regarded retrieval system evaluation exercises/campaigns, the proliferation of Web search engines, and the expansion of digital libraries. Although researchers have examined the intellectual structure and nature of the...

Contemporary metadata standards and interoperability approaches are mainly authoritative and hierarchical, which tend to favour an expert controlled metadata approach that is ubiquitous in current library practises, and, hence, fail to take into account the diversity of cultural, linguistic and local perspectives that abound. To overcome this, it is proposed that a social constructivist approac...

Bibliometrics has changed out of all recognition since 1958; becoming established as a field, being taught widely in library and information science schools, and being at the core of a number of science evaluation research groups around the world. This was all made possible by the work of Eugene Garfield and his Science Citation Index. This article reviews the distance that bibliometrics has tr...

Introduction Leisure continues to grow in importance in today’s society, as a construct of non-work time and the activities that attend our leisure. While researchers have explored the work context and everyday life contexts, the area of leisure in our information worlds has only recently attracted interest in library and information science (LIS). The impact of leisure on our everyday lives, i...