3 In his editorial for the inaugural issue of this journal in 1939, A. F. Kuhlman explained the reasons behind the decision to launch College & Research Libraries and provided a pre-emptive response to anyone who might ask whether or not the profession really needed " another library journal. " Existing " general library journals, " he argued, could not meet the needs of " college, university, ...

Reference management software is a well-known tool for scientific research work. Since the 1980s, it has been the subject of reviews and evaluations in library and information science literature. This paper presents a systematic review of published studies that evaluate reference management software with a comparative approach. The objective is to identify the types, models, and evaluation crit...

ABSTPACT The growth and proliferation .of machine-,readable data bases have created a need to consider the nature of recent developments, the impact of those' developments on library and information services, and their relationship with'the National. Commission on Library and Information Science (NCLIS) program. Data bases' many contain, information in a variety of forms, maybe produced by gove...

SlideShare is a free social web site that aims to help users to distribute and find presentations. Owned by LinkedIn since 2012, it targets a professional audience but may give value to scholarship through creating a long term record of the content of talks. This article tests this hypothesis by analysing sets of general and scholarly-related SlideShare documents using content and citation anal...

this paper was aimed at clarifying the links between uses and gratification theory (ugt) and knowledge and information science in both traditional and modern contexts. uses and gratification conceptual model were also proposed both for library and information centers, and for interactive information retrieval systems. review and analysis of published resources were used as the methodology of th...