Introduction Academic libraries have long had individuals responsible for social science data services, providing access to government and other types of data. Traditionally, these individuals included the social science subject librarian or the government document librarian. 1 However, recently it has become more common for the social science data librarian position to be independent, probably...

The emerging multidisciplinary field of computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) has the potential to address several theoretical, political, and praxis issues within academic librarianship. Conversely, librarians are uniquely situated to contribute to the ongoing development of CSCL, and the library is an ideal “place” for the development, implementation, and evaluation of collaborativ...

Theological Librarianship is an open access journal publishing peer-reviewed articles, as well essays and reviews, on subjects at the intersection of librarianship religious theological studies that potentially impact libraries.

Theological Librarianship is an open access journal publishing peer-reviewed articles, as well essays and reviews, on subjects at the intersection of librarianship religious theological studies that potentially impact libraries.

The history of public library buildings in Finland from 1945 to the present is analyzed by examining the Finnish architectural and librarianship discourses on library planning and design. Two Finnish journals were chosen as the main research material: Arkkitehti, the main national publication for Finnish architects, and Kirjastolehti, the major publication for Finnish librarians. The key histor...

THISARTICLE FOCUSES ON THE PROFESSIONAL LIFE and experiences of D. W. Krummel, professor emeritus of Library and Information Science and Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In twelve interviews conducted in the spring, summer, and early fall of 1998, Krummel discussed the persons, places, experiences, and ideas most influential to him as a veteran and historian of librarian...

This issue of Library Trends, on the theme of Research Into Practice, has been designed with two aims in mind. Published in 2013, it marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Information School (iSchool) at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom by presenting a selection of papers that demonstrate the creativity and variety of research undertaken in the field of librarian...

In recent years, librarians in various sectors have been moving forward a conversation on the distinct information needs and information-seeking behavior of our lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) patrons and how well the profession recognizes and meets those needs. Health sciences librarianship has been slower than other areas of the profession in creating an evidence base coverin...

NASA, NOAA, and USGS collections of Earth science data are large, federated, and have active user communities and collections. Our experience raises five categories of issues for digital librarianship: Organization of the data in the collections is not well-described by text-based categorization principles Metadata organization for these data is not well-described by Dublin Core and needs atten...

this research aims at investigating the amount of the application of servant leadership component in the libraries of isfahan state universities. the research method is descriptive survey study and the study population consists of managers and librarians of isfahan state universities in 2009-2010.the sample was estimated 111 by using cochran's formula. the random stratified sampling method was ...