Web links have been studied by information scientists for at least six years but it is only in the past two that clear evidence has emerged to show that counts of links to scholarly Web spaces (universities and departments) can correlate significantly with research measures, giving some credence to their use for the investigation of scholarly communication. This paper reports on a study to inve...

Purpose The aim of this paper is to advocate and contribute to a more nuanced and discerning argument when ascribing a democratic role to libraries and activities related to information literacy. Design/methodology/approach The connections between democracy and libraries as well as between citizenship and information literacy are analysed by using Mouffe’s agonistic pluralism. One example is pr...

Introduction Database systems are computerized systems for managing large amounts of data. Their principal function is to process requests from users to retrieve or alter the data they store. Traditionally, such requests must be expressed in a formal query language. Requests that are well defined are performed promptly; other requests are declined. Processing requests for information is also a ...

IN 1986, THE AUTHORS PROPOSED a taxonomy of theory for library and information studies research. The purpose of this paper is to propose a revised model for theory building, called Circuits of Theory, that includes both the taxonomy and the critical contextual modules researchers consider in their work. These modules surround the taxonomy and encompass the concepts of individual as well as soci...

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...