As education for librarianship approaches its centenary it is curious to note how many of the issues debated over the course of the last hundred years still remain unresolved today. Some of these are quite fundamental to the whole matter of education for a profession. In its strictly defined sense of formal full-time instruction, in an institution of higher education, specifically in librarians...

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...

Snunith Shoham is the Chair of the Department of Information Science at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. She received her Ph.D from the School of Information Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA. Dr Shoham has published many professional articles and three books, the newest one, Library Classification and Browsing: The Conjunction of Books and Readers, is scheduled to be published dur...

Introduction. The paper discusses the often-repeated assertion that digitization makes libraries and librarians redundant by giving everyone access to the information they need without having to rely upon librarians as information middlemen. Method. Relevant articles both from research literature and from discussions in the public sphere preoccupied with the relationship between digitization an...

This critical review considers current issues of research capacity development in UK health care and the role of health librarianship in this context, placing particular focus on the use of research networks. There is a growing literature base recognising the need for librarians to engage more with research. The concepts of evidence-based health librarianship and clinical librarianship are disc...