introduction: at the present time, information dissemination is one of the important functions of the libraries. and every library must adjust itself with the increasing development. therefore in order to effectively provide their users with sufficient information, university library managers must examine job-satisfaction of librarians in esfahan university and esfahan university of medical sci...

The disciplinary boundaries of library and information science and of biomedical informatics are remarkably similar. Both disciplines deal with data, information, and knowledge and with their storage, retrieval, and use in the service of society, yet each is rooted in its own unique sociocultural and historical context. While it is undeniable that computer technology has substantially influence...

review of studies indicates that development endeavors in science, technology and innovation (sti) arenas are counted as main accelerators of economic growth and social welfare. for that, governments and international organizations increasingly see the evaluation of science, technology and innovation as an important agenda for their policy and action. this article goes to employ document study ...

In this paper, we analyze Web of Science data records of articles published from 1991 to 2010 in library and information science (LIS) journals. We focus on addresses of these articles’ authors and create citation and collaboration networks of departments which we define as the first suborganization of an institution. We present various rankings of departments (e.g., by citations, times cited, ...

THELIBRARY PROFESSION PROCLAIMS ITSELF to be a proponent of both the Information Age and of equity for women and people of color. Yet certain features of the Information Age appear to be inhospitable to the goals of gender equity and there is a long history of gender stratification, with men favored for top positions in the profession. Structural changes brought about by the Information Age may...

In recent years, studies of Library and Information Science (LIS) disciplinarity developed original methods for examining the disciplinary composition of the field (Wiggins and Sawyer, 2012; Wu et al., 2011; Zhang et al., 2013). However, most of these studies focused on one fragment of the field, specifically, iSchool programs. In order to gain a fuller understanding of LIS development as a who...