lections and Services,” edited by Ciara Healy), pp. 391–401 © 2010 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract This article articulates the findings of two research studies. The first, a national survey, explores the educational background and current job responsibilities of media librarians. The second, a web analysis, assesses media-related curriculum components of accredited libra...

The authors thank both Rhonda J. McGinnis and Kent Yates. Ms. McGinnis, currently a Graduate Assistant at the Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, provided able assistance in drawing the samples, mailing the paper-based survey and coding responses for all surveys. Mr. Yates, Manager of Computing and Network Resources, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, ...

The researcher was fortunate to be a member of an international development programme for library and information science (LIS) in South Africa (DISSAnet), and has benefited from the experience to the extent that research and development in the LIS field is on-going. In order to promote this kind of initiative and to share the experience with those not fortunate to be part of the programme, it ...

Library and information studies education in Australia is characterised by unresolved tensions, some of which have persisted for several decades. Among its characteristics and conflicts are a multi-tiered system of qualification, a high number of schools per capita with a wide range of discipline affiliations, a wide acceptance of distance learning, pressure for curriculum review, and the perce...

Introduction. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in ethnographic research within the field of library and Information studies. Although ethnography has been used by information researchers for studying a wide variety of phenomena, discussions concerning methodological developments and directions, as well as ethnography’s wider applicability within the field are rare. Our intent ...

We propose digital storytelling as a pedagogical tool for online Library and Information Science education that recognizes diversity and fosters reflection among students and teacher. In a course titled Documenting Diverse Cultures and Communities, students contemplated their role as future information professionals and produced a short digital story dealing with community, archives, and histor...

Introduction In recent years, there has been a growing recognition of the necessity for interdisciplinary research that crosses disciplinary boundaries to deal with increasingly complex social issues (Rafols & Meyer, 2010). The relationship between the changes in interdisciplinarity of research over the years and researchers’ attributions has rarely been investigated. Understanding the relation...

This paper proposes to appeal to the structural-attributive approach to help establish a useful ontological categorization of information. Specifically, it argues that a framework for library and information science (LIS) based on Stonier’s theory of information would be helpful, with the intention to advance one of the unfinished dialogues of LIS, the socalled Wiener’s problem, or statutum ont...