Odell, J., Palmer, K., & Dill, E. (2017). Faculty Attitudes toward Open Access and Scholarly Communications: Disciplinary Differences on an Urban and Health Science Campus. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 5(General Issue), eP2169. http://dx.doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.2169 Faculty Attitudes toward Open Access and Scholarly Communications: Disciplinary Differences on an Urban...

The paper introduces a directory of Schools of Librarianship and Information Sciences in Latin America. This was based on existing printed directories, and an extensive web search in January 2007. An appended directory lists 127 instituions in the region that have or are currently offering courses in the subject, of which 100 appear to be active.

With his concept of „Knowledege in Action“ Rainer Kuhlen has formed the pragmatic orientation of information science. His approach introduced a dimension of time to the definition of „information“. This paper shows that the aspect of “information dynamics” was added at the same time to the concepts of information in the social sciences, in physics and in librarianship.

The title of this book humorously and truthfully defines how most librarians enter the profession of health sciences librarianship. Most librarians do not begin their careers with plans to specialize in the health sciences, nor are many of them aware that health sciences librarian-ship even exists. A well-written foreword by Jean P. Shipman, former President of the Medical Library Association (...