Leibnitz' Contribution to Librarianship

Geometric Algebra – Leibnitz’ Dream

1. Historical Developments About 150 years ago, in 1844, the German high school teacher Hermann Grassmann published an ambitious work entitled The Linear Extension Theory, A New Branch of Mathematics. For Grassmann this was indeed The Branch of mathematics, which in his own words “far surpasses” all others. His subsequent work Geometric Algebra won the prize of 45 gold ducats set out by the Pri...

Leadership in Librarianship

Two SURVEYS WERE ADMINISTERED to library professionals holding titular headships in order to develop a list of perceived library leaders. This list was used to learn the locus (subfield) of leadership and the degree of fieldwide integration as evidenced by the extent of shared perceptions by respondents. Results revealed that leaders tend to be associated most strongly with a category labeled “...

Librarianship in Israel

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...

Integrating in Librarianship Information

Library education all over world is under many pressures, which are enumerated. The paper concentrates on the relation between subject of librarianship, the subject of information science and the accommodation of information science in library education. Library education needs to take into account advances in information science because they provide neva theoretical frameworks and new professi...

Career Development in African Librarianship