IN 1964 w BOYD RAYWARD explored “the possible applications of organization theory to the study of libraries.”’ During the intervening twenty years there has been no general review of organization theory and its application to research in librarianship. The purpose of this article is to provide such a review. It begins with a very brief overview of the development of organization theory, and the...

Examining international teacher librarianship enables school library researchers and practitioners to continue uncovering the institutional factors that impact librarianship; further strengthening case for cross-cultural partnerships. In 2015, conducted an ethnography confirmatory study of in Moscow, Russia. Emergent themes culled from previous research confirmed this new were: collaboration, l...

The pandemic and resulting shift to remote work stressed the importance of distance library services. As librarians explored different modes engagement, embedded librarianship became increasingly important but also more complicated than before. While there is a wealth literature on librarianship, few authors agree how define it or discuss its specific challenges during pandemic. This paper will...

The international study of research and researchers in the field school librarianship that is described this paper has two main areas focus. first broad aim to provide an overview current (as 2000) state-ofthe-art librarianship, compare it with results similar work undertaken 1995, order identify trends developments. second active internationally, as basis for a survey. survey (using interviews...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 62, No. 3, 2014 (“Essays in Honor of W. Boyd Rayward: Part 2,” edited by Alistair Black and Charles van den Heuvel), pp. 504–518. © 2014 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract Focusing on the development of international librarianship in the interwar period, this paper uses the Paris Library School as a case study to explore the impact of new forms of intern...

purpose: the purpose of this study is to analyze the questions which were devised for the national exams in the field of library and information science both by the state university and islamic azad university during the years 1381-1386. the study aim at identifying the strength and weakness of the devised tests as well as the relationship between the presented questions and the course contents...

While most issues of the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA) contain one or two case studies, the JMLA editorial team is pleased to note that the current issue contains six case studies, highlighting a wide range of library-driven initiatives to support health sciences research and education. Briefly, Surkis et al. [1], Read et al. [2], and Brandenburg and Garcia-Milian [3] detail...

Barbara currently lectures for the School of Computing and Information Science (SCIS) at Edith Cowan University in information services management, information literacy, elearning and children’s literature. Her major interest areas include the role of teacher librarians in education, plagiarism, online learning and the online experience in distance education particularly for first time users, i...