One area in many library and information science (LIS) education programs consistently occupies the far end of the prestige spectrum: school librarianship. As Evelyn Daniel wrote in the Reader in Library and Information Services, “School librarianship [is] frequently regarded as a low status and alien activity by both the education and library professions” (1974, p.57). To gain necessary recogn...

Three related questions are addressed: Why was the work of the European documentalists largely ignored in the USA before the Second World War? What was the "information science versus library science" argument about? Technological innovation was a vital force in library science in the late 19th century and again after 1950. Why was it not a vital force inbetween? Examination of the technologica...

Journal publishers play an important role in the open research data ecosystem. Through policies that include public archiving mandates and availability statements, journal help promote transparency wider access to a growing scholarly record. The library information science (LIS) discipline has unique relationship with both initiatives academic publishing may be well-positioned adopt rigorous po...

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