TECHNOLOGY HAS AFFECTED THE REFERENCE and information culture in libraries. With the increasing scope of information transfer, users have higher service expectations of library and information science professionals. The emergence of a digital information environment has changed the century-old role of the reference professional. After the rise ofthe Internet, many skeptics foresaw the end of a ...

Resources Read library and information science course descriptions. Information Professionals (3), LIS 60600 Foundations of Library and Information Science. LIS 401: Foundations of Library and Information Science Tags: archives, class, courseguide, foundations, library and information science courses, lis, museums. If you want to get Foundations of Library and Information Science pdf eBook copy...

The study of information as proposed in information theory provides a useful tool for studying many aspects of information systems, libraries, and archives. How does a calculator that computes information-theoretic functions contribute to students learning database ideas such as the relationships between various attributes, or columns in a relational database? Understanding the relationships be...

In this article, theories of human judgement and decision making are reviewed and their use by library and information science researchers examined. A different perspective on judgement and decision making is offered by the field of naturalistic decision making (NDM) and the implications of this approach are considered for an expanded understanding of how judgements and decisions are made durin...

David A. Tyckoson is Associate Dean at California State University, Fresno; e-mail: [email protected]. © 2015 David A. Tyckoson, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC. It has been almost 50 years since Robert Taylor published this classic article in C&RL; yet much of what that article discussed is as fresh today as it was back then.1 As Taylor wr...