People in the Internet era have to cope with the information overload, striving to find what they are interested in, and usually face this situation by following a limited number of sources or friends that best match their interests. A recent line of research, namely adaptive social recommendation, has therefore emerged to optimize the information propagation in social networks and provide user...

AUTHOR Fitzgerald, Mary Ann TITLE Critical Thinking: Tools for Internet Information Evaluation. PUB DATE 1997-00-00 NOTE 18p.; In: Information Rich but Knowledge Poor? Emerging Issues for Schools and Libraries Worldwide. Research and Professional Papers Presented at the Annual Conference of the International Association of School Librarianship Held in Conjunction with the Association for Teache...

Changes in the Scandinavian LIS (Library and information science) curriculum during the last decade, interacting with librarianship as well as with society at large, call for a deepened understanding of the social dynamics of librarians’ occupational identities. At least two central themes emerge studying the recent development of librarianship, namely the process of academisation and the imple...

This paper examines the information needs of sexual assault survivors, with a focus on kinds these individuals may be seeking and how libraries can best assist survivors their needs. The begins an overview as pervasive problem in society order to form basis understanding what survivor going through barriers that affect seeking. are complex because experiences violence trauma, factors often resu...

THISESSAY INTRODUCES the overall subject of the present issue of Library Trends and puts into a contemporary and historical context all the pieces which follow. The authors look at the current world of special collections, showing how it has evolved and how, in many ways, issues of the past are still with us. Libraries change, in all of their capacities and departments. Special collections and ...

The study of the history of science has recently taken on new importance as an academic discipline. It’s easy to see why. With the pace and complexity of scientific developments accelerating, the need for improved guidelines for scientific research becomes more obvious each day. As critical as today’s dilemmas of pesticides, pollution, and nuclear weapons are, applications of current scientific...

At the end of article, a retrospective analysis educational and activities public libraries Ukraine in 1990s 20th century was carried out against background problems values, development priorities society at that time. Changes library legislation, types libraries, content structure their activities, processes creation number national last decade were studied. modern system Ukraine, initiation a...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 63, No. 4, 2015 (Libraries in a Postcommunist World: A Quarter of a Century of Development in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia: Part 2, edited by Hermina G.B. Anghelescu), pp. 704–724. © 2015 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract Slovakia is a young and progressive country that has undergone great changes since its establishment as a sovereign state. T...