Rachel Applegate is Assistant Professor at Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, Indianapolis; e-mail: [email protected] Over half of all non-student employees of academic libraries are support staff. What competencies should these workers possess? To what extent are these competencies similar across library departments and across library types—in what ways do they diff...

A study of the perceived prestige of a core group of library journals by directors of ARL libraries and library school deans reveals a prestige hierarchy for each group. Although in rough agreement on the rating of two-thirds of the journals, the deans and directors differ significantly on the ratings of the remaining one-third. The subset of ARL directors in institutions where librarians have ...

(Library and Information Science Abstracts) database records were consulted. After detailed comparisons, it was found that keywords provided by authors have an important presence in the database descriptors studied; nearly 25% of all the keywords appeared in exactly the same form as descriptors, with another 21% though normalized , still detected in the descriptors. This means that almost 46% o...

In order to evaluate medical education and its related problems, study of medical students  point of view is among the important factors. For this purpose questionnaries were given ,to  518 premedical students at the basic science and physiopathology level and they were asked to  comple.te the questionnaries without mentioning their names.  In this study most of the students believed that the q...

Introduction. This study examines the research methods and techniques used in Spanish journals of library and information science, the topics addressed by papers in these journals and their authorship affiliation. Method. The researchers selected 580 papers published in the top seven Spanish LIS journals indexed in Web of Science and Scopus and conducted a content analysis of 394 of these paper...

introduction: increasing volume of information in various sciences, such as medicine, has led to the use of various strategies to effectively provide students, researchers, and teachers with medical and paramedical information. the iranian ministry of health and medical education has developed an online digital library, called iranian national medical digital library (inmdl), which provides acc...

libraries play a pivotal role in the sustainable development of the country. the aim of the present study was to investigate the quality of educational services provided by library of medical faculty of kermanshah according to the library standards. in this descriptive cross-sectional study, 309 library members were studied through libqual questionnaire. data were analyzed by descriptive statis...