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...

There have been many reports on the construction of digital libraries. We find three shortcomings in many of these reports. (1) They fail to articulate the organizational need for a digital library. (2) They ignore the important operational details in establishing the library, including the end user classroom. (3) They fail to provide any quantitative data concerning the ability of the digital ...

Candy Schwartz is Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston, Massachusetts 02115-5898 ,[email protected].. I t is an understatement to say that the phrase “digital library” (DL) means different things to different people. As part of a class project, students in a digital library course recently found 64 different formal...

This article is an attempt to discuss the establishment of joint use libraries as something more than just administrative collaboration. It focuses on joint use solutions between public libraries and university college libraries. Normative institutionalism is used as a theoretical framework for the discussion, which draws from studies on and experiences of the establishment of two joint use lib...

DO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY UNITS HAVE MORE POWER THAN OTHER UNITS IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES? Sook Lim Library and Information Science, College of St. Catherine, 2004 Randolph Avenue, #4125. St. Paul, MN 55105 (t) 651 690 6888, (f) 651 690 8724, [email protected] Lim, S. (2007), “Do Information Technology Units Have More Power than Other Units in Academic Libraries?” Journal of the American Society for...

Beyond buildings, collections, and services, the library and information science (LIS) workforce is key to the success of many aspects of a knowledge economy. LIS professionals partner with educators in the instruction of youth and young adults, support reading and information literacy required for productive participation in society over the life course, enable research and development through...